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...radio commercials will be pleased to learn that these questions haunt no less a person than six-foot, greying Howard S. Meighan, 42, who is a CBS vice president. A huckster of 21 years standing, Meighan charged this week in the trade sheet Variety that radio's basic flaw is "the insincerity of language and manner used in the average . . . commercial...
This book is not a technical treatise. It should fascinate anyone interested in criminal law or psychiatry, or both. The sole flaw in the book is Dr. Wertham's habit of self-congratulation. His own treatments and diagnoses are always correct, those of his colleagues are usually wrong or incompetent, and if the judge had listened to him everything would have turned out all right. The reader is left with the picture of the author battling alone against the forces of stupidity, as represented by judicial and medical quacks. This is purely a personal flaw, though; Dr. Wertham's style...
...great flaw in the movie is the music, which is tuneless, mawkish, and worthless. Bing, though a peerless song plugger, is left this time with a carload of goldbricks. He receives adequate and on pitch assistance from his leading lady, Rhonda Fleming, but as we said before, two times nothing is still nothing...
...thing, Oscar Hammerstein II has succumbed to a fit of moralizing for a few minutes in the second act, and although it is only a passing fit, one that is practically flippant compared with the attack that laid "Allegro" low, it is nonetheless a blotch, a mar, a flaw. And the song that does most of the moralizing, called "You've Got To Be Taught"--the full line is "You've got to be taught to hate"--is as unnecessary as it is didactic. It simply repeats in italics an idea that has already been made in a succinct...
...decided. His party was going to fight all the way; it planned to criticize every government measure as it had never done under former leader John Bracken. Drew lost no time in starting. On the first day, when Prime Minister St. Laurent introduced a motion, Drew found a technical flaw in it, forced St. Laurent to withdraw...