Word: weaknessness
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"Is it my weakness as an author," Conrad Aiken asks in Blue Voyage, "that I appear incapable of presenting a theme energetically and simply. I must always wrap it up in tissue upon tissue of proviso and aspect; see it from a hundred angles . . . producing in the end not so...
Heekey (5-3-2)--The icers have so far had the fallest schedule of any of the Yardling squads. Their biggest weakness is defense, as witnessed by the close 3-6 victory over New Prep last Saturday. Despite this flaw, only two total disasters have befallen the team, a 7...
Evidence of weakness in the Harvard System is abundant. In far too many courses lecture attendance is poor and the score for sections even worse. Year after year, Confidential Guide questionnaires report that "the whole is the reading list." Many students, and not just the bright ones, find they can...
While Sears President Crowdus Baker concentrates on building catalogue sales (26% of total volume) with added outlets and faster deliveries, Cushman is working to strengthen a weakness in Sears's domestic chain: the 13-state Eastern region that generates 40% of all U.S. retail sales. Long dominant in the...
After writing his solid, careful biography, Rogow attempts some amateur psychoanalysis that does not seem warranted by his own facts. "The reality of Forrestal's personality," he writes, "was not essential toughness but essential weakness." Rogow lists some of the troubles that he thinks eventually crippled Forrestal: his "early...