Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clive dutifully livens his exposition by suggesting the obligatory sinister Victorian flaw. Macaulay, a lifelong bachelor, loved his younger sisters Margaret and Hannah more than a brother should. Working from this clue of psychological incest, Clive submits that Macaulay was a suppressed romantic, smoldering behind a mask of rationality. He even labors to make him a man of our time: asserting the intellectual capabilities and working performance of the black race, and defending the rights of Roman Catholics and Jews...
...cited the "blueprinting" tendency of the American system--each person's viewing himself as an isolated entity in an effort to view social problems objectively--as a basic flaw of commissions studying social problems...
...biographical sketches that deal with him are full of preposterous errors." Blotner's years of research, therefore, were spent in a noble cause. How, then, did things go so wrong? The author's foreword offers a clue to his-and much of modern biography's-ruling flaw. He has written, says Blotner, a biography of the works as well as the author, "since each element of them was in some sense a product of his total life." In short, whatever adds bulk to the "total life experience" has got to be important...
...discussion of Henry Kissinger's meeting with the Latin American Foreign Ministers [Feb. 25], TIME incorrectly characterized U.S. inter-American policy as "near-total neglect." The Nixon Administration has worked carefully to avoid a chronic flaw in previous U.S. policy: the idea that all development in Latin America should be according to U.S. formulas. The result is the "low-profile" posture, in which the U.S. would not dominate but rather wait for Latin American initiatives...
...phenomena story was fed into it. Against astronomical odds, both of the machines that print out TIME'S copy stopped working simultaneously. No sooner were the spirits exorcised and the machines back in operation than the IBM computer in effect swallowed the entire cover story; it developed a flaw in its programming that sent the copy circling endlessly through memory loops from which it could not be retrieved. Thirteen hours and a second expert exorcism later, the IBM 370/135 snapped out of its trance and grudgingly returned the finished story...