Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pong, sound so silly. But the cheapness of the chancellors' music is often intentionally used as a parodic foil for the genuine ardor of Calaf and most of the other Chinese effects are designed to underscore the various processions in the work. In stage presentation, the pageantry obscures the flaw...
...primary objective of the spring trip will be to develop doubles pairs that can form together regularly all season. The major flaw in the Crimson's attack last was that Barnaby often had to combine players who had not practiced together unsettled state of Harvard doubles continued all the way to May, and in the ten days of the season Smith had to play matches with three different partners third doubles...
...straight 700's on her Scholastic Aptitude and English Achievement Tests she ranks in the top tenth of her high school or prep school class; principal and teachers alike detect 'no' flaw in her brains, character, and personality; her interviewer finds her alert and eager, chock-full of intellectual curiosity. By objective standards, she will profit immensely from and contribute greatly to any college in the country. But will she get into Radcliffe? Not necessarily, for an average of 1,000 equally well qualified girls have applied for the last three years--and Radcliffe has space for only...
Several critics have taken Copland to task for immobile writing that has no organic development, and such a long work as this (it lasts an uninterrupted 30 minutes) is extremely susceptible to this flaw. Copland himself admits to willful use of a similar structure; he once said that "the composer's purpose was to attempt a composition that would suggest the quality of fantasy, that is, a spontaneous and unpremeditated sequence of 'events' that would carry the listener (if possible) from the first note to the last..." And, indeed, he has done just that. The piece moves smoothly from...
...very flaws of the Glee Club's performances were directly related to Davison's predominantly educational aims. The club grew from 75 to 250 because he wanted to allow as many as possible to take part in it; to accommodate as many as possible and blend voices of varying qualities, he sought "a homogeneous mediocrity of tone." Such tone was not in itself a flaw of the group; but since it often resulted in an imbalance of bases, only restraint could compensate for their greater volume, and several sympathetic reviewers, including Olin Downes of the New York Times, remarked about...