Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is another, and more significant flaw in Ardrey's thesis. It must be clear to any careful observer that we are, in the words of Piel, editor of the Scientific American approaching a "propertyless" society. "The ownership of property," observed Piel, "is no longer the primary source of power, even economic power in our society. . . ." He goes on to note how modern consumers mortgage their homes, buy their cars on time and rent a good deal of what they need. He concludes that "the typical consumer owns no property in the classical meaning of the term...
...second flaw in Kramer's technique is the studied cuteness of his syncopated scene changes, which jump from a key word or object at the end of one segment to the same word or object at the start of the next. Coincidence is not a logical nexus, merely a clever one, and it's grating after you get the joke...
...incidents. Before the ladies come, Fielding cannot find his back collar stud, and the puppyish Aziz plucks out his own and forces the principal to take it. Later Miss Quested's fiancé, by his own admission a "sundried bureaucrat," uses Aziz to illustrate the hopeless flaw in the Indian character: the man is neatly dressed, he points out, except for a comical inattention to detail-he has forgotten his back collar stud...
...Author Spark's fans are confident of her ability to discover astonishing falsities in unlikely places. The language stings as elegantly as ever, and when the author writes that gaunt Scottish schoolmistresses say good morning "with predestination in their smiles," nothing need be added to the description. The flaw is a thinness of texture; no single outline is untrue, but details are indefinite, as in a photographic positive taken too soon from the developer...
Against Boston University in the Arena tonight, however, such a flaw could be a crucial one. And if the Terriers have their number one goalie back in action, B.U. could pull off a major upset...