Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Bonnard's drawing was fuzzy and weak; the composition of his paintings was haphazard. He borrowed ideas at will from other painters, and frequently flubbed them. When he launched into a picture he just hoped for the best and was never quite sure how it would turn out. (Painting, he suggested, was rather like making hats.) Bonnard had neither Picasso's drive nor Matisse's decisiveness; yet his work rivaled theirs...
...Through seductiveness, or first idea, the painter attains the universal . .. With certain painters-Titian for example-this seductiveness is so powerful that it never abandons them ... I myself am very weak, it is difficult for me to remain my own master in front of the subject...
Then his intense speech slowed; his figure swayed. Officials supported him before he fell. He was carried out, his notes still clutched in his chalk-white hands. Mayor Kolb explained that the speaker was weak after a serious operation...
...lecture system is particularly weak when unaccompanied by other elements designed to unify the individual's education and to bring him into closer contact with the faculty. Further experiments with small section groups might lead to a partial fulfillment of this requirement, but the key to the problem, which is perhaps the most dangerous within the educational picture of Harvard today, still lies in tutorial...
Since 1931, when Cornelius McGillicuddy had his last pennant-winning wonder boys, the Philadelphia Athletics had been a consistent team: the most weak-kneed in the American League. The man the baseball writers once considered a genius came to be regarded as a quaint old character content with teams so cheap that they made a profit even when they finished in the cellar...