Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistant of President Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers, and to Jay Lovestone, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, for the purpose of helping various anti-Communist unions abroad. His article is highly self-flattering and oversimplified, but most of his statements appear to be correct. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany called Braden's account "a damn lie"-but added cautiously, "to the best of my knowledge...
...campus of the University of California, which bills itself as "designed for the modern man," 17 courses are partly taught by computer. In Geography I, for example, the machine leads students through such questions as: "How does geography's focus differ from that of the other social sciences?" (Correct answer: "Geography is interested in the spatial impact of all categories of human behavior, whereas other disciplines tend to focus upon a single category.") If the student respends with any or all of the key phrases in the answer, the computer replies "good," or "excellent," and proceeds to the next...
...Throw him out!" one student yelled back: "We listened to Stokely Carmichael, so why don't you listen to Wallace?" (When the Negro militant appeared at the school last fall, he was subjected to a few boos.) When Wallace did manage to be heard, it was to correct "misunderstandings" about his state, to deny being a racist, and to denounce Americans who aid the Viet Cong by donating blood and money...
What is needed by both the dissenters and the dissented against is not more repression but more expression. "When a nation silences criticism and dissent," says Historian Henry Steele Commager, "it deprives itself of the power to correct its errors." Johnson likes to add that the need for correction cuts both ways. "We must guard every man's right to speak," he says, "but we must defend every man's right to answer." His point is well taken-as far as it goes. He too often seems to forget that without right answers, the right to answer...
...university radio station after ten minutes. Johnson, he said, invented the war to satisfy the rednecks who wanted to kill gooks, giving him an alternative to continued support of the civil rights movement. "Yes, thought the President," Mailer drawled, "his friends and associates were correct in their estimate of him as a genius. Hot damn. Vietnam. The President felt like the only stud in a whorehouse on a houseboat...