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This is the story, simple and moving as a child's nightmare, of Peter Taylor's first novel, A Woman of Means. By keeping his aim modest and his voice down, Author Taylor has written a good, if not a major, novel. One flaw: the stepmother's crackup is too feebly foreshadowed; when it comes it is as unexpected and as nearly incredible to the reader as it was to the boy. The boy, however, is a bright little minnow, dragged flopping and flashing out of a dark pool of childhood, one of the most vivid children...
...flaw in Sherwood's plot is that there are two heroines and only one hero. Horace Miller, a young photographer with James G. Bennett's New York Herald in 1885, is the object of affection for both Maisie Dell, a lady-reporter from the Police Gazette, and Miss Liberty herself. By all the traditions of American musical drama, Maisie should be the winner. She waits faithfully in New York while Horace tracks Miss Liberty down in Paris, she talks Bennett into sending money to Horace, she sings "Homework" with tears in her eyes. But somehow the show's namesake wins...
...flaw in France lies at the top-in a weak, vacillating, procrastinating coalition government of parties that have little in common besides the desire to stay in power. These parties pursue their petty intrigues while the security of France runs out. One party gets the War Ministry and puts in its generals; another party takes over the ministry and sidetracks the first party's generals to make room for its own. Result: the generals are playing politics and the army is demoralized. Although the basic economy of the country has made a fine recovery, French government finances are muddled...
...York City Opera's opera-thirsty little Director Laszlo Halasz decided last year to give the Three Oranges a squeeze. He fixed one flaw right away by having the libretto translated from French into English. New sets, a bright young cast, some comical choreography by Charles Weidman, and some overall Halasz humor fixed the rest. The first production last year was a hit. Halasz quickly scheduled five more sellout performances. Next to Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Three Oranges became City Opera's biggest hit-big enough for Halasz to open his spring...
Except for the system of cooperatives, most of these recommendations are already included in bills that stand a good chance of passage. Nevertheless, a basic flaw in the whole set of proposals was promptly spotted by the subcommittee's Republican minority, Ohio's Robert Taft and Massachusetts' Christian Herter. They thought that the subcommittee had missed the main point which its investigation brought out. One of the "fundamental causes" of small business failure was a lack of investment capital, said Taft & Herter. This was due mainly to the "high tax rates on middle and higher incomes...