Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE the Chicago conspiracy trial has casily taken its place on the list of Decisive Political Events of the last few years, it has suffered one major flaw as a political rallying point. In the age of televised history-when millions of clectronic witnesses have personally seen conventions, assassinations, riots, and marches-the trial remained a basically private affair. The TV cameras that made it to the moon could not enter Judge Julius Hoffman's District Court. And so the public was left to feed on the daily press reports, all of which seemed to begin. In its most tumuhuons...
...book's primary value is not as a warning to those who already share Cowan's sentiments. The same subjective passion that may flaw the book as history makes it a uniquely persuasive political statement. The Making of an Un-American owes its uniqueness as a polemic to the fact that it is first and foremost about people, which (as often as we may forget) is also what politics is about. Cowan's development as a human being, which encompasses his development as a political activist, becomes all-important to the reader. Parts of the book read like a diary...
...should not intervene when other parts of Government have recently acted. Arguing that regulations going into effect this summer will give welfare clients the same rights as the court ruling, Burger rapped the majority's action as "another manifestation of the now-familiar constitutionalizing syndrome: once some presumed flaw is observed, the court then eagerly accepts the invitation to find a constitutionally 'rooted' remedy. We ought to allow evolutionary processes at various administrative levels to experiment...
Another possibility was sneaking back to Cambridge and bed, and then pretending I'd stayed on the whole day and writing the story as if I had. Immediately, however, I spotted a flaw in that plan: it was dishonest. The idea of tricking my innocent reading audience was abominable...
...Harvard Dramatic Club's production of Sartre's The Flies is vigorous, engaging and very well paced, a minor flaw being its tendency toward romanticism in terms of both acting and spectacle. Sartre's play, admittedly, allows great room for high-stepping histrionics. But where an emphasis on the wild and bizarre was most needed-in the contorted antics of the "furies" or "flies"-the exaggerations became positive dividends...