Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defensiveness; the limits of human gesture amazed her. "Everybody has this thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way, and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw...Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us in a certain way, but there's a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help people knowing about you." Arbus probed that disjuncture...
...profile of George McGovern leans too far the other way-it is so uncritical as to seem reverential. Where it does point up what it considers a flaw, such as McGovern's backing of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, it suggests that it can be forgiven as being "politically realistic," an excuse granted to few other subjects. The language of the profile is laced with panegyric phrases like "that kind of humility" and "unassuming preacher-like authority." Those who know McGovern well find him neither humble nor unassuming...
...present system is a scandal, perhaps the fatal flaw in American democracy," declares Los Angeles Fund Raiser Harold Willens. "It's the nastiest thing in all of politics, and it may destroy our whole political system," contends Missouri Judge George W. Lehr. "There's a smell, an odor about it, and unless things change the system cannot survive," insists Larry O'Brien, campaign manager for George McGovern. Says Senator Edward Kennedy: "It is the most flagrant single abuse in our democracy, the unconscionable power of money...
...flaw in the rosy picture is that Americans for another year will have to live with levels of inflation and joblessness that they would have thought unbearable only a short time ago. Most of the economists think that price rises will equal or exceed this year's likely 3.4%. Eckstein predicts a 3.9% increase in the consumer price index-which is moderate compared to Europe's inflation, but excessive by past U.S. standards. Unemployment, the economists believe, will average around 5%, v. the 4% that is usually considered "full employment." The reason is by now familiar: super-rapid...
...role of the United States in every confrontation be particularly 'tough' or convincing." Although he correctly observes that Vietnamization "was adopted in response to the political threat which American war critics posed to the chances for compromise negotiation with the other side." Landau earlier states that "the most dangerous flaw in Kissinger's line of thinking is the belief that domestic opinion should pose no obstacles to the conduct of foreign policy...