Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the Cards can make it all the way to the title depends largely on Jones and his pitching colleagues in one of the best mound staffs in the majors. By the word of the experts, pitching was the fatal flaw of the Cards at season's start. But Jones has lately found the proper groove (his season record: 7-3), and Larry Jackson has a nifty 2.83 earned-run average and a 10-4 record. And, best of all, the Cardinals are getting a buoyant boost from their pair of bonus babies plucked off an Oklahoma cotton farm...
...Path Down. In his early days, Rojas' peacemaking might have worked. After he overthrew Dictator Laureano Gómez in 1953, he was hailed as the savior of Colombia. But one year later Rojas' tragic flaw-the strongman's inability to accept criticism-began to show through. With a heavy hand he began censoring newspapers, finally suppressed Bogotá's two leading dailies, El Tiempo and El Espectador. From there his path led only downward. His soldiers and cops shot down political opponents and students. By spending uncounted millions on arms and post-exchange luxuries aimed...
...Overseers, in suggesting the creation of such a division, had come to recognize what many undergraduates feel is an unfortunate flaw in Harvard's art program--that little attention is paid to problems of the creative artist. The prevailing sentiment at Fogg was perhaps best expressed by Professor Rosenberg when he announced that creativity in the fine arts program is totally "extra-curricular," opposing it to the "proper guidance" which the department now offers. It is precisely this point of view which has driven many would-be art majors into a substitute field such as Architectural Sciences, which offers some...
...second major flaw in the show is the misuse of the star's talents. Miss Verdon shares with such other musical comedy queens as Mary Martin and Ethel Merman that undefinable quality called stage presence, but unlike them she is not, primarily, a singer. Though she possesses a pleasant enough voice, her main ability is as a dancer, and more specifically, a comic dancer. The show offers her only one opportunity to do this sort of work, and the resulting ballet, There Ain't No Flies on Me, is the musical's best sequence...
...tragic flaw lies not in his character, but in the fact that he is only an "Acting Colonel." The War Office sends a man named Basil Barrow from London to take over the battalion. A "poor wee laddie," who is colder than Flora MacDonald,* he had spent the war in British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers...