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...cheap way, but also because her garlicky, long-skirted mother does not conform to her self-image, her need for smooth modernity and rationality. Maria's ostensible embarrassment over her heritage is a dirty trick to play. She is too finely tuned to admit this sort of flaw blithely; by nature a vivid personality. She must and does go to great lengths to avoid trite melodrama. The words she utters at the end of the play are too cliched to be the credible product of the Maria whose quick intellect has stunned us in earlier dialogues: "We're serious people...
...dealing with such esoteric issues is especially prone to demagoguery. Insofar as SALT II was a symbol of Jimmy Carter's stewardship of American foreign and defense policy, it barely stood a chance. That was the linkage-the "fatal flaw"-that mortally wounded the treaty. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the coup...
...actions, when no such self-recrimination haunts the teacher of, say, physics. But a work of Literature, unlike a physical law, has moral content to begin with, and the teacher's inability to transfer that content may seem either a failure of his own understanding or a basic flaw of the craft. What concerns such a teacher, the scrupulous teacher, is that he is dealing solely with words-the words of others, which are not his property, and his own words in their behalf. The matter is abstract, thus unnerving. Every word is an idea, and that may offer...
...Present Dilemma There is a "flaw" in SALT II, though not the one usually discussed. It is that SALT limitations were expressed in terms of numbers of delivery vehicles at the precise moment when the increase in the accuracy and number of warheads caused numerical "equivalence" to be more and more beside the point. With each side possessing the capability (the Soviets' actual, ours latent) of making its opponent vulnerable, arms control after a decade of negotiations had returned to its starting point...
...Jessica Beels as two of "the guardians"--superhumans who guide the others in their choices--add fabulously ludicrous life to the proceedings with each appearance. The third is more imposing: Patrick Bradford fills the role with commanding presence but delivers many of his lines too quickly, a fatal flaw in a character whose main trait is calm control...