Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is very entertaining, but there is no escaping the consequences of a cast of characters composed of stereotypes, no matter how necessary they may be as foils for the brilliant unconventionality of the protagonist. This is a flaw inherent in the very idea of the play. Furthermore, Maugham has not altogether succeeded in escaping the stereotype in the case of the heroine herself. The drawing room comedy has seen unconventional heroines before, and Maugham has drawn a bit freely on the stock of conventionally unconventional ideas...
...inconsistency is the production's crucial flaw, and it is writer-director Verneuil's fault. Although the pace never flags, although several of the jokes are funny, and although the basic situation is sound enough, the play cannot overcome this weakness. Reginald Owen, for instance, starts off his characterization of a retired Secretary of State with finest premium ham. Half way through, he becomes a shrewd man. Owen executes both neither has much to do with the other...
...antis wanted to exhibit the skulls downtown as a clincher. But a flaw developed in the anthropological argument. A university instructor pointed it out: the Puget Sound Indians lived almost entirely on seafoods, rich in that sinister chemical, fluorine...
...Shrike is a relentless, gripping theater piece-one man's horror story that might easily be more than one man's fate. It is a tale of doors closing, one by one, until a door opens at the end-upon the outskirts of hell. Even its chief flaw as playwriting-it slightly scrambles the picture of an institution with the predicament of a man-enhances it as theater...
...what is not known rather than what is known in medicine. At Harvard, for example, a student may be shown a case . . . that cannot apparently be explained ... He is asked to go to the library and come back with the answer . . . The teacher, to gain respect, must find the flaw in the student's argument, generally on a point of logic rather than of fact. When teaching at Harvard, it is usually a mistake to be too dogmatic, for a student is all too likely to prove you wrong. It is much better to pursue the Socratic method...