Word: weaknessness
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To Brown, dealing with the Pentagon's people is the hardest part of his job "because there are so many of them [about 2.1 million military and 1 million civilian employees] and because the institution they constitute is not easy to change. The toughness of the structure is a strength...
I REDISCOVERED SANTANA at Harvard. A rather unmemorable statement, were it not for my Chicano ethnicity and my general weakness for good sounds, be they rock, classical or any other type of music. Sure, I went out and bought Abraxas along with everybody else a few years ago, but Santana...
So dream on, Penn. Better luck next year and it had to end some time. I always had a weakness for cliches.
Most irksome, though, is this production's inability to establish or sustain any sort of dramatic mood. Part of the problem is, of course, the weakness of the voices--notably those in the chorus, which appears on stage with annoying regularity to remind the leads of the power of memory...
Hentoff relentlessly drives home his point through a series of fast-paced interviews with a more personable black principal who also turned reading scores around in an intermediate school in New York City, and with a social worker with no formal education whose contagious personal integrity and concern has saved...