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...rusty encrustations of habit, custom and tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths he had discovered...
...central flaw of Death of the President is that it forces the reader to become preoccupied with the numerous slip-ups in the author's style and manner of writing "history." Manchester meant his volume to complement the visual record of the four bleak days in November, 1963. Yet his shoddy craftsmanship and endless supply of irrelevant detail have dulled the effect with which he wanted to touch us deeply. In the end, the book negates the event...
...Band's major flaw throughout the concert was an amateurish negligence about watching the conductor. There is little one can complain about in Walker's conducting; it is to him that much of the music's vigor and sensitivity of phrasing must be attributed. However, one felt he had to fight to keep the Band at the tempos he wanted...
Important as I take this flaw to be, it is not overwhelming, and Jones' later moments are almost atonement. John Lithgow as Sparky is, predictably enough, superb throughout as is Jack White as the changeable bargee. Roger Kozol who stood in for Ross as Hurst will, with any sort of justice, become a legend. It is said that he learned the part in one night and took an hour exam yesterday Kozol used a book, of course, but he was acting, not reading...
...declared that "the evils that the encyclical calls attention to" are those that "Marxists have been calling attention to for more than a century." In fact, parts of Populorum Progressio had the strident tone of an early 20th century Marxist polemic-which, to some readers, was precisely its flaw...