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...down in favor of showing their procedures) but through fleeting exchanges of glances and gestures caught, as it were, out of the corner of an alert camera's eye. Even so, the failure to explore their relationship with more fully dramatized incidents, good sharp verbal exchanges, is a major flaw, giving the picture a certain coldness at its center...
...Stalinist, and an exponent of "American exceptionalism"--the view that the US would have to follow a path to socialism different from that envisioned by Marx. Dos Passos was a pragmatist who never joined the Party and who was less a Marxist than merely an anticapitalist. The most glaring flaw of Diggins' book is his failure to recognize this critical similarity among the four...
...from Communism is a curiously uneven book, a mixture, on one hand, of impeccable scholarship and, on the other, easy simplifications that skirt the issues raised by such conversions. The basic flaw is that Diggins finds himself unable to achieve a serious interpretation of the intellectual evolution of these four men, due to his own preoccupation with the politics of the sixties and seventies. Unable to distinguish these intellectual conservatives from the likes of Nixon, he ends by trying to subtly discredit them. If it is true, as one former radical said, that "the final struggle will be between...
...kind of thing--it spends its time in meaningless rituals, many of them involving animal dung, and suffers from high disease rates. But the Xixi are also happy, and they resist all of Alan's attempts to civilize them; indeed, their ultimate destruction is due not to any inherent flaw in their ridiculous way of living but to the encroachment of Western powers...
Hannon played high school ball and in the YMCA league, but was injured in a game when he was 27 and decided to take the mandatory written exam for entering the referee ranks. The would-be refs are also marked on a "flaw test," says Hannon, which "is pretty much cut and dried." After making the grade, refs work junior varsity ball for two years and then apply to be placed on the ECAC freshmen officials list. They are then either elected or relegated to the high schools by a vote of varsity-level officials...