Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somehow, in all of "Ivan's" ardor and devotion, there seemed to be a fatal flaw. He liked to run the Ministry of Education in his own way and he stubbornly resisted the demands of party politicos with axes of their own to grind. From the standpoint of the Casa Rosada, Oscar Ivanissevich was beginning to seem a little too independent...
Stanley Woodward, former Tribune sports editor who brought Smith to New York from the Philadelphia Record, finds the 44-year-old columnist's sole flaw stems form unalterable belief that no wrong can be done by Notre Dame, his alma mater. There is certainly little to criticize about Smiths' writing; he has his favorite expressions, but he is always fresh...
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...