Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Crime and Punishment, despite its weak ending, is one of the greatest novels ever written, and likewise The Most Dangerous Sin is far better than its soggy climax--in all, one of the best French films to come to the Brattle in quite a while...
...Sullivan company there arises the onerous necessity of mounting Princess Ida--usually after all other possible expedients have been tried. Unfortunately, only Gilbert and Sullivan have ever succeeded in writing a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and even they only wrote a few. Ida is second-rate, but authentic; a weak sister, but still one of the family. This production is unlikely to make any fanatical converts, but Agassiz these days is still a pretty good place in which to forget worldly cares...
...National Labor Relations Board and the states--but it is a bill, and a reasonably satisfactory one. It has been buffeted by the amendments of McClellan, whose position in Arkansas depends to some degree on his keeping unions out of the state. It has been attacked as too weak and too strong. But it is probably the strongest bill that could have passed the Senate, and it does incorporate measures to reduce the worst abuses of modern labor...
...bill is a major step toward legal regulation of unions. To reject the bill because it is too weak, as was done last year, would be shortsighted and stupid. The Senate has made a first move toward regulating labor by bills which are not merely imposed willy-nilly on the unions; to refuse the advance just because it is not of the ideal dimensions would be a major blunder...
PARIS, April 27--Taking up his first foreign assignment as U.S. Secretary of State, Christian A. Herter arrived in Paris today to help shore up weak points in the Western front for Geneva talks with the Soviet Union...