Word: correct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Harvard squad took the opportunity to examine and correct defensive weaknesses, the Wheaton team would probably rather forget its performance...
...what about the conclusion that Podhoretz draws from the scenario? Vietnam, he says, was an "act of imprudent idealism whose moral soundness has been, overwhelmingly vindicated by the hideous consequences of our defeat." Given the boat people, he says, the American effort to save the South from Communism was correct. But he is wrong...
Rosovsky's contention that the Administration's more laissezfaire approach to affirmative action represents an opportunity for Harvard, then, rests on two premises. The first is that federal pressure to increase the number of qualified minorities and women in academia had actually backfired. That contention may be correct, certainly federal codes mandating endless statistical reports and detailed procedures haven't done anything to streamline the Harvard bureaucracy. But at root it is a minor contention. No one would seriously suggest that the resources freed up by even the most drastic retrenchment in federal requirements actually will dramatically facilitate the hiring...
...this is a myth. Chirican perspective was not meant to set the viewer in a secure, measurable space. It was a means of distorting the view and disquieting the eye. Instead of one vanishing-point in his architectonic masterpiece, The Melancholy of Departure, 1914, there are six, none "correct." This cloning of viewpoints acts in a way analogous to cubism. It jams the sense of illusionary depth and delivers the surface to the rule of the flat shape, which was the quintessential modernist strategy. In color, in tonal structure, and in its contradictory lighting, Rubin argues, De Chirico...
...financial rather than front pages. Even the Administration, which made reducing inflation its top priority, is blowing only a muted self-congratulatory trumpet. The President complained rather mildly last week that the heartening price developments "haven't quite got all the attention that they deserve." He is correct, and although Reagan has refrained from taking credit for the drop in inflation, as well as from accepting blame for the recession that has helped to cause it, both have occurred while he has been in charge...