Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next in the U.S. reaction was what was called the "empty-chair" approach. That would mean proceeding with plans for Atlantic partnership and European union as if De Gaulle's France were merely absent from the room. But there is one fatal flaw: France is not absent, and it is difficult to imagine any sort of economic, military or political plan for Western Europe that does not need, and must not seek to accommodate, France's presence...
...than setting the drama on fire. Part of the trouble is the arena stage: Desire's sense of puritanically suffocated beings seeps away on a wall-less stage, and, paradoxically, the movie-close-up intimacy of such a stage makes silence more dramatically potent than speech. The deepest flaw is O'Neill's failure to understand the essence of the Greek tragedies from which he borrowed. The Greek hero was a man trying to be god and failing, the tragedy of overweening pride. O'Neill's heroes indict god for failing...
...were brought on in part by taxpayer disaffection. But today's tax-revision tide is essentially different from the elemental discontent shared by all burdened taxpayers throughout history. What is astir in the U.S. is a sophisticated discontent?the nation has scrutinized itself and found a deep but correctable flaw...
This practice of running hard even though there is no race may be a sign of what many of his fellow Congressmen consider to be Mills's besetting flaw: an apparent insecurity that sometimes makes him overcautious. The flaw is all the more puzzling in that, far more than most men, Mills has escaped defeats and detours in life. He is that fortunate rarity, a man who has fulfilled his boyhood dreams...
Congenital Flaw. Chrysler still has a long way to come back, but at least it seems headed in the right direction. It took an aggressive and impatient young man to do it. Some of Chrysler's difficulties, as well as its success, stem back to the character of its founder, the late Walter P. Chrysler. A cocky, self-educated industrial genius, Walter Chrysler so constructed the corporation that he constituted the only real link between its major divisions. This was all right so long as he was around. His successor was K. T. Keller, like Chrysler an ex-master mechanic...