Word: weak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having a little fun with George Ford--he's not nearly as bad as the Ford in the White House. The fact remains, however, that his team, at 2-6, is running like an Edsel. Moreover, the credibility of Ford's explanations for the team's weak record is not much higher than that of a used car salesman's pitches...
Compared to Harvard, Brown is relatively weak financially; its $100 million endowment is roughly equal to the interest on Harvard's endowment in one year. Fiscal strain is in evidence all around the campus; one calculus instructor complains of 50-student section meetings and "very poorly maintained classrooms," both during and after the service workers' strike...
Sadly, the repentant friendly witness, Edward Dmytryk, can be watched falling apart; he presents an outlay of all the conflicts playing inside the weak paradigm. Dmytryk stood with Ten, went to jail, came out and gave names; he was subsequently hired by Hollywood's reigning young liberal Stanley Kramer. Now, his pictures and career faded, all he does is apologize and explain with a slight tremble. Trumbo's pictures were no better than Dmytryk's for the most part (his dialogue stank) but he had his integrity and his anger to clutch to, and it kept...
...good faith on November 17, more than six months after the union first issued its complaint, any decision against the company is certain to be appealed--a process which will probably take several more months. In the meantime the strike may be broken. And in the final analysis, the weak sanctions against offending companies provided for in the National Labor Relations Act are not much of a deterrent...
...they are never as fully developed as they might have been in a documentary film, nor as fully digested as they should have been by any first-class dramatist. An even more serious flaw, however, is the fact that not a single character in The Front is surprising. The weak never startle with a momentary show of strength. The wicked never betray a flash of compassion. The heroes never convincingly falter in their convictions. They are simply not alive, and it is hard to care much what happens to them. Even the cleverly chosen New York locations somehow seem contrived...