Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anyone in the Pentagon who doesn't remember that Mac can remember every damn thing he ever saw. He can look at a page with hundreds of figures on it and get to the source of any error. He has the same ability to detect a flaw in an argument...
...Ph.D. is tortuously slow and riddled with needless uncertainties; that it is frequently inefficient and traumatically disagreeable to the frustrated candidate. The basic flaw is: We have never clearly defined this protean degree...
...look away with shock: for compare our Ph.D. programs with the professional programs in law, medicine, or business. We must ruefully conclude that the Ph.D. is tortuously slow and riddled with needless uncertainties; that it is frequently inefficient and traumatically disagreeable to the bewildered and frustrated candidate. The basic flaw is: we have never cleanly defined this protean degree...
...sinner at the bar of society's judgment, Caitlin Thomas writes like a saint at the stake. The book may be vulgar and shameless, but it is also a beautifully written, classic portrayal of the romantic temperament. Two of a kind, Caitlin and Dylan Thomas reveal the tragic flaw in that temperament. To intensify every passing moment of life, the romantic must live at an ever-quickening pace. Moving from excess to excess, he must demand more and more of himself. Pursued frantically enough, this course can result only in madness or death; persistent echoes of both ring through...
Shibboleths & Shenanigans. A more serious flaw in business reporting is the deep-rooted aversion of most business editors to controversy, gloom or criticism-in tacit cahoots with the managerial mentality that believes that the private lives of corporations should be immune from the irreverent scrutiny to which the press routinely subjects politics, government and the boudoir antics of showfolk. "Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished...