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...doing vital defense or special research jobs, and with the number of graduate students greatly depleted, many older professors have more free time than usual. Certainly no temperamental reasons, no fondness for lecture desks should come before the tutorial system in this emergency. Perhaps the most glaring flaw in the tutorial teaching program is that it does not count for advancement, and is regarded chiefly as a chore that young instructors have to endure. Tutoring, in fact, has been the very essence of university teaching from the days of Abelard...
...newcomers in India see Sikhs in tanks and pursuit planes, Gurkhas driving armored cars. But any soldier with General Brereton's penetrating eye is bound to spot a flaw. Due partly to circumstances, including the necessary drain on Indian manpower and equipment for other theaters, the Indian Army as a whole is not a modern army. The British began woefully late in the game to modernize their Indian troops. In spirit, the Indian Army today is still an army of lances and banners rather than tanks. Its British officer caste is little changed, and the Indian officers now being...
...Flaw. In Dallas, Interior Decorator H. P. Jordan flunked his Naval Reserve physical examination: he was colorblind...
...film's producers were apparently aware that audiences are as sick of the tale of intrigue in a Balkan bungalow as they are of Jeannette McDonald. So they got smart and rigged up a whole new story. There was only one flaw in the plan: the new story was just as bad as the old one. They also thought they'd provide an antidote to the somewhat ghastly charms of Miss McDonald. So they raided--and that word is more descriptive than you think--the Metropolitan Opera and came up with Rise Stevens. This little scheme fell through...
...found with the picture, it is its continual telegraphing of punches. You're pretty sure of what's going to happen before it ever happens. In most movies, this would prove a fatal error. In "All That Money Can Buy" it's simply a minor flaw in an otherwise irreproachable and praiseworthy film. Hollywood can still make good pictures. And ones like this almost make up for most of the bad ones...