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...antis wanted to exhibit the skulls downtown as a clincher. But a flaw developed in the anthropological argument. A university instructor pointed it out: the Puget Sound Indians lived almost entirely on seafoods, rich in that sinister chemical, fluorine...
...Shrike is a relentless, gripping theater piece-one man's horror story that might easily be more than one man's fate. It is a tale of doors closing, one by one, until a door opens at the end-upon the outskirts of hell. Even its chief flaw as playwriting-it slightly scrambles the picture of an institution with the predicament of a man-enhances it as theater...
...what is not known rather than what is known in medicine. At Harvard, for example, a student may be shown a case . . . that cannot apparently be explained ... He is asked to go to the library and come back with the answer . . . The teacher, to gain respect, must find the flaw in the student's argument, generally on a point of logic rather than of fact. When teaching at Harvard, it is usually a mistake to be too dogmatic, for a student is all too likely to prove you wrong. It is much better to pursue the Socratic method...
...importance ; it rises quietly out of the big land, and sinks quietly back into it. The natural world, in fact, is the only real character in Winds of Morning; the people in the book appear chiefly as traits of that character. Ordinarily, this would be a fatal flaw. The measure of Novelist Davis' success is that he will almost certainly make a great many readers decide that his favorite country deserves the affectionate priority he gives...
...daughter, Jennifer, is played by Olga San Juan, and we must look to director Daniel Mann for the main flaw in her portrayal. Mann seems fascinated by the tableau as a dramatic device, and he frequently places Miss San Juan and other members of the cast in ridiculous positions for extended periods. She is noticeably uncertain about what to do with herself while on stage, and one constantly has the feeling that she is ill at ease. Miss San Juan's voice is not a powerful one, but she has thoroughly absorbed her role and performs creditably...