Word: flaws
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Novak, who defends nuclear deterrence as a way of preserving peace, primarily challenges the bishops on strategic grounds. "Their position would make war much more likely," he says. He feels the underlying political flaw is blindness to the Soviet threat. "What is amazing is the profound anti-Americanism of the document," he insists. "You cannot face this moral question without facing the reality of the Soviet Union. The bishops are holding Europe hostage to abstract thinking, because the absence of an American deterrent would raise the probability of a Soviet invasion. You don't qualify as a peacemaker just...
...Lorean's most telling flaw of all may have been blindness to his flaws. "I haven't failed at anything of importance," he once said. "I am not capable of addressing failure." Yet he may have known that something was wrong. Two years ago, in Ulster, when DMC's prospects were brightest, John De Lorean confessed to a certain gnawing discomfort with himself. "I am not a good example for other people," he said. "I am not a serene person, nor do I have peace of mind. I am not sure...
...public-key concept may survive Shamir's master stroke. Secret codes, like fine wines, tend to improve with age. The competing code system Shamir co-authored at M.I.T. remains, for the moment, uncracked. But the discovery of so basic a flaw in the Stanford scheme is no small matter. When public-key codes first started appearing in scientific journals, Admiral Bobby Inman, then head of the National Security Agency and until recently deputy director of the CIA, worried in public about the Soviets' and other hostile nations' learning to develop uncrackable codes simply by studying published...
...essential flaw in Different Seasons lies not in any inherent lack of ability on King's part, but moreso in his insecurity. He has been typed as a mass-market horror writer, and is experiencing the fatal pangs of self-doubt. King has been convinced that in order to establish himself as a serious writer, he must abandon his ghost stories. He does so, not realizing that horror is, in fact, the most effective vehicle for his creative sense...
...turn to Getting Even or Without Feathers; that way, at least, they'll be spared the anxious author's attempts to supply context, justification and an inexorable order of development. Running as far toward the present as Stardust Memories, the book obviously cannot address Allen's latest, but the flaw is less than it might be, for no great effort of imagination is needed to deduce what Jacobs would say about it: It's funny, it draws on the difference between reality and dreams, it's set in the turn of the century, and it's very, very funny...