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...doubtless considered that a strike against Chrysler would be less of a drain on the U.A.W. strike fund, would have the best chance of early success, and would probably damage the economy least, thus creating the least public pressure on the union to desist. There could be a serious flaw in Reuther's thinking: Chrysler still accounts for only 14% of auto-industry sales, and G.M. and Ford just might refuse to sign any contracts patterned after one won from the smallest of the Big Three...
...Chekhov's comic irony to show how sorry his characters feel for themselves. It is his genius for finding the human pulse to make playgoers feel sorry for them too. But if a masterpiece may have a flaw, it is perhaps that Chekhov tries to make pathos do the work of tragedy. If the sisters and the men around them draw their breath in pain, they rarely raise a finger against fate. They are small sinners and great talkers. Masha comes closest to making a breakthrough to life by falling in love with an unhappily married colonel (Kevin McCarthy...
Recent history points to the flaw in the theory. As it happens, losers have an awfully hard time controlling anything thereafter. Alf Landon certainly didn't control the Republican Party after 1936. Neither did Wendell Willkie after 1940, or Dick Nixon after 1960. Tom Dewey did maintain his control between 1944 and 1948, but he did it with the help of a superb political machine. Goldwater has no such machine, and the chances that he could control the G.O.P. after defeat seem negligible...
...flaw, clearly, is not in the product but the packaging. There should be a way to enjoy Moravia's stories a few at a time. Until some publisher has a better idea, why not bind small bouquets of them, like cinema short subjects, into the first pages of the next 500-page novel about Rome...
...artless sketches (with a lifetime of craft behind each deceptively negligent line) have a heartbreaking quality when the reader recalls that these glittering trivia were cut and polished by a man soon to take his own life. So the reader searches for a clue to the tragic flaw in a nature that seemed all confidence and gallantry, and finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could make the humdrum business...