Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the final playoff, Dobrzynski floundered badly in a Borodin selection and got lost in Die Fledermaus. When it was Jorgensen's turn, he moved to the podium with the same puzzling grin and waved the orchestra through both pieces without a flaw. During the last test selection-a tricky, untitled tone poem composed by Judge Bigot to tax contestants-Jorgensen drove the orchestra through the score so fast that the string section was glazed with perspiration at the finish. He won first prize hands down. For all his clowning, he had proved himself, in the words of Judge...
...Disney's early wildlife films, it lets the animals provide their own humor. The script might have been improved by more scientific detail; adults would have suffered, but youngsters, accustomed to getting missile data on the backs of cereal boxes, would have thrived on it. A more serious flaw is the film's musical score. It is not as objectionably cute as that of Water Birds, in which whooping cranes mated to Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, but it is bad enough. Presumably it is supposed to hype up interest, but jaguars are too accomplished at scene...
...family that amounts to anything has a streak-a peculiar streak, or a morbid streak, or one involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend a Negro who is charged with raping a white woman...
...modifications will consist of adding new strength to the engine nacelles, whose weakness was the plane's basic flaw, and to the wings. Lockheed will add strengthening attachments to the mount that supports the engine and to the structure that holds the mount to the wing. The wing will get new, tougher planks (lengthwise strips) and be otherwise stiffened by new bracing. The fixes will make the nacelles and wings "fail-safe," i.e., prevent the failure of any part from affecting the whole wing structure. American Airlines, which will sign the first contract, expects modifications of its fleet...
...translations often made of Latin and Greek plays, Mr. Copley has veered too far to the other extreme. In a program note he says that, "As Plautus tried to make his Greeks talk like Romans, the present translator has tried to make Plautus talk like a contemporary American." The flaw in this reasoning is that while there were many points of similarity between the Greek and Roman civilizations, few of these points are mirrored in our time. In particular, since we do not live in a slave society, one of the main characters, a slave taking advantage of his masters...