Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winston Churchill, detecting a small flaw in a London comedy, dropped around backstage to pass the word. In subsequent performances, when the British trucks rounded a corner they sounded their horns...
...scholars finally agreed that democracy can be measured by two "signs" and two "conditions." The signs: shared power and shared respect. The conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...
Perhaps the production's chief flaw was the lack of training in the soloists. Although Soprano Irma Cooper had a beautiful tone, she lost control when singing either loudly or high. Less noticeable in Eilen Repp, contralto, and Harold Haugh, tenor, the lack of control again appeared in Bass John Metcalf. His usual clarity deserted him almost completely during the intricate chromatics of the aria, "Why do the nations so furiously rage together...
James Lamantia, as fired, and Evelyn Merson, as "amante" of Alceste, both give capable, if not outstanding, performances; perhaps the latter's chief flaw is a tendency to overdo her coy coquetry. Mollere's foppish aristocracy, as inevitable as Shakespeare's colwns, is capably portrayed by Hibbard James. Harold Fondren and Robert Miller...
...doubt there would be heavy casualties among U.S. ships in the future, as in the recent past. But there was one great flaw in the Japs' plan: while they could be sure of committing suicide, they still could not be sure of getting away with enough murder in the process. Radio Tokyo, announcing that Japan's entire naval air corps had been converted to a suicide outfit, explained with admirable clarity: "If this tactic is successful, victory is assured for Japan. If otherwise, the navy will have many heroes for our shrines...