Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flaw in G.E. Report...
...alleged photograph of a single disc taken by Californian coast guardsman Frank Ryman, which would shake the jet stream hypothesis, might well turn out to be a flaw in the lens upon critical examination, Professor Mather ventured...
...Massenet's Thaïs, 33-year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate...
...third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill of pleasure that makes me quiver to think that I can predict a play is not enough to offset the tragic disappointment when the great Ted has to drop his bat and sidle to first. It is the great flaw in the American psyche. And how would you like to be the guy (poor bastard) who they walk Williams to get to. He's the fellow who will then hit into a double play. Imagine how he feels, letting his teammates down to the sound of icy silence from the stands...
Visitors found only one flaw: the soloists were a notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...