Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Berlin who from 1912 to 1917 was twice his fiancée but never his bride. Erich Heller's introduction, though heavily written and somewhat abstract, does pinpoint Kafka's "moral hypochondria ... a man ready to feel guiltily responsible for what he knows to be a flaw in the order of the world...
...think there is something wrong with everyone who becomes a lawyer. There's some paranoia, some cowardice, some lack of courage or self-identification, some flaw in a person's contribution that makes him become a lawyer," said one radical San Francisco attorney...
...connection must be made between the corrupting influence which always accompanies large coercive forces--like big government--and the advocacy that government should be made larger, for whatever noble purpose. Failure to perceive this is an inherent flaw in the philosophy and strategy of the Left and of the liberals...
...mortem of slaughtered American values and conceits. The veterans speak in salty, evocative American. Lifton, straining for cosmic assertions, clutters his accompanying argument with dense jargon: "creative transmutation of rage," "moral inversion," "general psychohistorical dislocation." His decision to discuss in detail only members of VVAW is a more serious flaw. They are, after all, a very special group of antiwar activists...
...Never think of leaving perfume or wine to your heir," advised the Roman epigrammatist Martial. "Administer these to yourself, and let him have the money." The flaw in Martial's dictum, if applied today, is that anyone who enjoys the better known wines, particularly French imports, is unlikely to have much cash left for himself or his survivors. Prices have spiraled upwards cruelly and there is no end in sight...