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Doris Lessing has the rare skill to deal seriously with a female main character who falls into the large but artistically troublesome range between prostitute and nun. Perhaps because the novels are more autobiography than fiction, the author suffers curiously from her heroine's flaw of vision; she is unwilling to look with interest at anything outside Martha...
Sheridan's characters are engagingly simply persons, each supplied with an appropriate flaw. They confide all their secrets to the audience, and they warn us that in their world deep thought is forbidden. They allow only hearty laughter...
...American Revolution, in that it, too, was a war for independence. His references to slaves almost invariably mention their great loyalty and contentment. This, the third and last volume, bears the title Jefferson Davis: Tragic Hero, and Strode writes in his introduction: "I can find no fatal 'flaw' in the Davis character like to that which Shakespeare gives his heroes to bring about their own ruin, unless it be a passion he shared with the classic Greeks: an almost fanatical belief in freedom in government...
...there was a single flaw, and it was fatal. Lieut. Harfad Sardoun, one of the six pilots, passing himself off to the conspirators as a secret Baathist, was in fact working for the regime. As the plotters' plans firmed up in late August, Sardoun fed details to Aref's police. Aref made no move until Sept. 3, eve of the coup. Then, overnight, loyal army units and police swooped down on Camp Rashid. The five Baathist pilots were rounded up and executed. Colonel El Jabouri and most of his officers of the 4th Armored Brigade were clapped...
...hate, of reaction; the sensitive recording device functioned, but the rest of the apparatus was missing. Years later in California, that boneyard for aging British intellectuals, Isherwood's camera still clicks away. Its subjects are less often street scenes than the landscapes of the mind, but the limiting flaw persists. The camera now surveys a middle-aged British homosexual, a professor of literature whose roommate has been killed in an auto accident. This deprivation has no meaning, for George is only a faint thickening in the midst of the world's loneliness. The expression of his isolation...