Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was the tragic flaw? According to Professor Robinson, there were several. Policy and principle were sabotaged by personality and expediency. While F.D.R. proclaimed the bright future of the common man, mushrooming Government bureaus sapped self-reliance by nurturing security-consciousness. "The most powerful of American Presidents" chose to time vital actions of state on such cues as he could pick up at the keyhole of public opinion. Concludes Robinson: "Roosevelt's failure lay in his unsuccessful attempt to justify the means or establish the ends he had in view. This was his personal tragedy. Inasmuch as on major...
...Flaw to Correct. The gravest defect in the revitalized A.F.L. that Meany took over was the weakness of the central leadership in comparison with some of the individual union heads. The public knew about the A.F.L.'s failure to stamp out racketeering in some of its unions-e.g., the longshoremen and teamsters. Almost as serious were the unceasing membership raids between A.F.L. unions. Meany started by negotiating a no-raiding agreement within the A.F.L. Meanwhile the unity committee mulled over some sobering statistics showing how labor was wasting its strength in internal warfare. The figures...
...defending the training program against the label of Universal Military Training, Defense Department spokesmen exposed a more dangerous flaw in the proposed system. "UMT would permit youths to discharge their military obligations quickly" declared Assistant Secretary of Defense Chester Burgess, author of the bill. "The Administration program imposes lengthy military obligations on the reserve men, just as on draftees for the regular army." By requiring nine and a half years of weekly drill and summer camps from the reservists, and six years of the same training from men who have completed two years of active duty, the Administration bill saddles...
...Small-Size Adult." According to Flesch, the basic flaw in the system lies in that it "looks at a child as if it were a small-size adult." Lip reading and learning the rudimentary ABCs are taboo; the word "children" is "children" only because Teacher says so, not from any deciphering of its component letter-sounds. Result: a third-grader is "unable to decipher 90% of his own speaking and listening vocabulary when he sees it in print...
Cincinnatians read him with affectionate respect, and when he points out a flaw in the city, they hurry to patch it up. When he wrote that Cincinnati's Longview Hospital was short of wheelchairs, 18 were quickly provided. Another time, he told about the hard time a family was having after the breadwinner was sent to prison for stealing a factory payroll. Reading "Cincinnatus," the factory owner called the holdup man's wife, hired her at $20 a week, and told her to earn it by staying home to care for her children...