Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have always repudiated all human heads and human names for the people of the Lord, and shall feel very thankful if you will correct the impression which your article may have made in thus representing me as the founder of a religious denomination. [Signed] Alexander Campbell...
Loughan, of course, cannot be tried again for the same crime. If the jury was correct, he had cheated the gallows. But that was little comfort to Harold Loughan. After the trial he was returned to the prison hospital where, after spending 23 of his 66 years behind bars, he awaits death from inoperable cancer...
...screen of organ pipes, and played through Bach's Art of the Fugue, the final composition of his life and a showcase of his innermost contemplations on polyphonal theory. Only at the end of their two-hr.-long performance did Wolfgang and his assistants appear to take crisply correct bows, and then they were off on the high road again...
...change would correct some of the difficulties in the administration of the new rules. Many dormitory presidents have complained that under the present system upperclassmen sign out considerably later than the time at which they actually plan to return in order to avoid the possibility of being late and incurring punishment...
Sculptor's Hand. On the podium, Szell is formal and correct-his beat firm, his style understated. His baton moves stolidly. but his left hand-often called the most graceful in music-is a sculptor's hand, shaping and molding each sound, grasping the fortissimos, summoning the dominant voices and, for excited counterrhythms and violent colors, fluttering like a bird caught in a storm. "Between conductor and orchestra," Szell says, "a great deal must occur below the conscious level. There must be an understanding that is mystical and even occult. The freshness of the eyes, the mood-each...