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Several critics have taken Copland to task for immobile writing that has no organic development, and such a long work as this (it lasts an uninterrupted 30 minutes) is extremely susceptible to this flaw. Copland himself admits to willful use of a similar structure; he once said that "the composer's purpose was to attempt a composition that would suggest the quality of fantasy, that is, a spontaneous and unpremeditated sequence of 'events' that would carry the listener (if possible) from the first note to the last..." And, indeed, he has done just that. The piece moves smoothly from...
Complete Courtmen. Yet such are the demands of modern basketball that each of these players has a flaw, however slight. Chamberlain, Baylor and Pettit are less than superior as playmakers. Boston's Russell is an erratic scorer. Not only is the short Cousy no rebounder, but he is no great shakes on defense-despite his flashy interceptions...
...very flaws of the Glee Club's performances were directly related to Davison's predominantly educational aims. The club grew from 75 to 250 because he wanted to allow as many as possible to take part in it; to accommodate as many as possible and blend voices of varying qualities, he sought "a homogeneous mediocrity of tone." Such tone was not in itself a flaw of the group; but since it often resulted in an imbalance of bases, only restraint could compensate for their greater volume, and several sympathetic reviewers, including Olin Downes of the New York Times, remarked about...
Miller's third and most irksome flaw is suddenly to change the way his characters talk, from common speech to rhetorical and poetic common speech, whenever he approaches a climactic scene. His dialogue, which is usually dull, becomes silly...
...preserving the peace but complained about the bill: "One might almost say that his was a peace at any price. It was during his eight years that Soviet Russia achieved victory after victory and the U.S. took insult after insult." Columnist Joseph Alsop, who regards optimism as a character flaw, faulted Eisenhower for his complacency: "President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with difficult problems and dangerous situations by displaying massive unconcern, meanwhile hoping that time will remove the difficulties and denature the dangers...