Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article about the World Council of Churches [Feb. 7], there are two statements about me that I would like to correct: 1) I passed only 14 years in Communist prisons, not 18. I have been in Nazi prisons, too. But I would not like to charge this to the Communists. 2) I am not anti-Red. Reds are men who must be loved. Christ died for them also. He has taught us to love even our enemies and torturers. They are keeping in jail tens of thousands of Christians in Red China, Russia and other countries. They torture them...
Since 1966, the auto recall has become part of the American scene. In close to 300 recalls, Detroit's auto industry has called back some 11 million cars for repairs and examinations necessary to correct faulty features built into them in the factories. Last week General Motors, whose "Mark of Excellence" is worn by one-half of all the cars and trucks in the U.S., announced that 4.9 million of its autos were being recalled for safety modification. It was by far the largest recall to date, accounting for one-fifth of all the GM cars produced...
...Leftist de Beauvoir is taking a poke at De Gaulle's "house" intellectual, Minister of Culture Andre Malraux.) Then reviews appear of her latest book, a work intended to offer fresh approaches to literary criticism. "Wearisome repetition," they say, or at best, "an interesting restatement." The reviewers are correct, she realizes, and it seems to her that her career is over. A vacation with her husband is painful. She refuses to swim. "An old man's body, I said to myself, watching him splash about in the water, is after all less ghastly than an old woman...
...multiple of 4. It is usually in 4/4 time but it can be fitted to other rhythm patterns as well. There is a Blues chromatism or Blues scale which has African origins and differs from the West European scale. In order to play the correct Blues notes it is necessary to bend or flatten certain notes. This is achieved in different ways on different instruments. On the guitar the Blues notes are played by bending the strings which raises the note up a quarter tone into the Blues scale...
...reaction of Wisconsin students to the black protest was strikingly uniform. The black demands represented a legitimate complaint about the university, and sooner or later something would be done to correct it. "The demands will be met eventually, and most of the blacks will be kicked out," one of the active white protestors said, "this doesn't affect me physically even though I suppose it bothers me morally that I'm not going to be punished...