Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble between them goes back to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who once backed the N.L.F. which has always been strong on terrorism but weak in leadership. In 1966, Nasser switched his support to the newer and more political FLOSY. Today, the N.L.F.'s only visible leaders are its secretary general, Qahtan al Shaabi, 47, an engineer who once served as director of agriculture in one of the federation's tiny sultanates, and his hard-eyed young nephew, Feisal. What outside support they have, if any, remains their secret. FLOSY, on the other hand, boasts a stable...
...Rome, Bergman's role is to be "wholly and completely the mother. I buy their clothes; I go to the schoolteachers and talk about lessons and what they are weak in; I go to the dentist's with them-just like any mother...
...timid. Thom Babe has directed a lucid, often striking play. But he and his associates, unawed by the Greeks and Shakespeare, are frightened of Brecht. Babe hasn't dared to cut or revise some pointless speeches and scenes. The play is too long, the play's overall impact, too weak...
...pleasurable emotions," wrote Boston-born James Jackson Jarves, America's first real collector of Italian Renaissance art, in 1852. At the time, few Americans agreed with him. When his collection of 143 Pre-Raphaelite paintings was shown in New York in 1860, critics panned them decisively as "weak and fettered," "the crude expression of Genius grappling with superstition." Snorted one Victorian gallerygoer, viewing a Tuscan religious panel with a gold-leaf background: "More of these d-d ridiculous Chinese paintings...
...moments, such as the ragged fiddling at the start of the first movement's coda and the end of the funeral march; and a woodwind passage in the trio of the scherzo was muffed the first time, but went admirably the second. The finale, which is the one weak movement in the symphony, suffered much of the time from a lack of ensemble, and had doubtless gone much better in rehearsal...