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...thrown into situations where long-hidden sensitivities are laid bare. The excitement of From Here to Eternity lay in the author's recognition that his spirit of negation was not a symptom of languor or hopelessness, but of a conscious anti-social bent. The awkward writing did not seriously flaw the novel's tone of anguished experience: Jones was justifying his existence through the printed word. The drama he evoked out of his own sweat and blood and pathos was at times self-pitying and sentimental: the tragedy that such emotions are inherent in a situation which equates discipline with...
...fanatic flaw in Arnolphe, the protagonist of Wives, is that he is a wildly jealous man with a horrible fear of being cuckolded. Arnolphe (Brian Bedford) has had his intended wife Agnes (Joan Van Ark) posted to a convent from childhood, and now keeps her isolated from society in a town house guarded by two watchful servants. Arnolphe's master plan has been to keep Agnes innocent in body, and blank of mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins...
...Night Visitor is as incontinent as a colander, as unstable as a drunk trying to stand on one foot. Its central flaw is so common that Raymond Chandler complained about it 26 years ago in his great critique "The Simple Art of Murder": "The boys [cops] with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one some body tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody thought of only two minutes before he pulled...
...sophomore Graham Arader who has advanced from fourth place during the season. The Bulldogs have experience at the two and three positions with captain Jay Bryan and junior Bob Stevens. Yale has thus far been weak beyond number four, and considering Harvard's depth, that should be a fatal flaw...
Soon after Gizzi trustingly drove away, though, he discovered a flaw in his newly purchased van: the brakes failed. Gizzi hit the rear end of a trailer truck, seriously injuring himself and a passenger. When he recovered, Gizzi turned his old faith into a claim of liability. Instead of suing Hinman, the obvious target, Gizzi went after Texaco on the ground that it had clothed Hinman with "apparent authority." As he saw it, Texaco's promotional slogan suggests that its various dealers are skilled mechanics. The company, he claimed, was thus liable for Hinman's defective repairs...