Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's order is apparently intended to correct growing mental and physical deficiencies in youth. An independent report, released Saturday, estimated that one-third of the nation's youth reaching 18 would be found unfit for military induction...
...narration of Luke and Matthew (transeat its literary form), or the eviscerated version lucubrated by the gnosis of the demythologizers? Evidently the former. If the hermeneutical scalpel is to be wielded in public, one must use great care lest he convey to the little ones that Scrooge was correct when he said of the Christmas tale, "Bah, humbug...
...Quoted below is a section from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which will correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...
...entirely preoccupied with the present, while the humanities is built upon a concern for works of the past--the concern of a physicist with Newton has almost nothing in common with the concern of an English scholar with Shakespeare. And in science, truth is single, there is only one correct answer to a question, whereas in the humanities there are many answers to all but the most trivial questions...
...really possible to defend any program of General Education in a thousand words, and it has not been my intention to do so. Rather, I am trying to emphasize that while a misunderstanding about science caused difficulty in the original program, it would be a error to over-correct that original error and cleave too closely to the scientist's concern for methods without a careful consideration of a program rather like that recommended by General Education in a for the a program of several Education a makes its meet of its view of the relation between academic education...