Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Opera's opera-thirsty little Director Laszlo Halasz decided last year to give the Three Oranges a squeeze. He fixed one flaw right away by having the libretto translated from French into English. New sets, a bright young cast, some comical choreography by Charles Weidman, and some overall Halasz humor fixed the rest. The first production last year was a hit. Halasz quickly scheduled five more sellout performances. Next to Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Three Oranges became City Opera's biggest hit-big enough for Halasz to open his spring...
Except for the system of cooperatives, most of these recommendations are already included in bills that stand a good chance of passage. Nevertheless, a basic flaw in the whole set of proposals was promptly spotted by the subcommittee's Republican minority, Ohio's Robert Taft and Massachusetts' Christian Herter. They thought that the subcommittee had missed the main point which its investigation brought out. One of the "fundamental causes" of small business failure was a lack of investment capital, said Taft & Herter. This was due mainly to the "high tax rates on middle and higher incomes...
...lots to determine who would get the first shot at living quarters for the coming school year. Lot-drawing is carried out by classes, and a ratio of the four classes is maintained in each dormitory. While this is seemingly a simple and equitable system for assigning rooms, one flaw makes the current method unfair...
Acheson sat down and pocketed his spectacles amid the chair scraping and applause of a rising ovation. Forensically, it was a brilliant performance: an advocate's skilled case for the defense. As the outline of a policy, one basic flaw weakened it: a negative attitude which accented the hazards instead of emphasizing the opportunities. There was little in it for Americans to rally to. The U.S.-unlike the defense-could not afford to rest...