Word: weaknessness
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Antonia White worked as a journalist and as a translator from the French. She wrote three more autobiographical books, which follow her heroine, now called Clara Batchelor, until she is 23. The Lost Traveller centers on her intense relation with her adoring but autocratic father. If Claude Batchelor lacks Dickensian...
Myriad evils--officers bent on promotion, industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably...
Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them get to the top...
Administration officials concede that there is some organizational confusion. But they insist that there is an overall policy, and that their seeming obsession with the Soviet Union is based not only on ideology but on the perception that the U.S. is in a position of weakness in relation to the...
Finally, the Communists were too feeble to cause Mitterrand any domestic problems. Nothing illustrated that weakness more strikingly than their endorsement last week of a joint political platform supporting all the key Socialist positions on domestic and foreign policy. Many of its planks, such as those on Afghanistan and Poland...