Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some analysts have speculated that the unsatisfactory economic argument may cover up the more basic political suspicion that a merger of 'Outer Seven' with 'Inner Six' would grow into a 'third force' which would ultimately decrease the relative political power of the United States. If this analysis is correct, American uneasiness about the European Movement is neither intelligent nor noble, for it is based, on the one hand, on the view that the quantity of political power is eternally fixed and on the other, on the uncharitable assumption that Europe will desert the Western Alliance...
...House rocking chair, John F. Kennedy faced a delegation of top U.S. newsmen. The eight visitors* were not exactly hostile, but they were not exactly friendly either. Just two weeks before, in an ill-conceived speech, the President had charged them with a sin and told them how to correct it. In its anxiety to report everything, Kennedy had said, the press sometimes spilled national secrets; perhaps U.S. newspapers need some form of self-censorship to suppress news endangering the national interest. Unimpressed, the editors and publishers had trooped to Washington to try to find out exactly what the President...
Rankings create a distorted picture of the relative merit of students, according to Louis A. Toepfer, vice-Dean of the Law School. Students' grades tend ot cluster, Toepfer explained, and often have to be computed to the second decimal point in order to determine the correct ranking...
Thank you for the good things you said about Notre Dame and me. Some of the quotations, while verbally correct, were so much out of context that they seemed to say what I did not really say. The "abysmal mediocrity" was part of a long historical summary on the ups and downs of Catholic higher learning, not an indictment of present-day efforts. The charge of being "almost universally destitute of intellectual leadership" was from a paragraph much later on that referred to a specific problem: "As to civil rights and equal opportunity for all races, we have been almost...
...last line, this is unquestionably an admirable translation. In translating many individual words and phrases, however, the churchmen have been swept up by a fury of innovation: the Greek phrase en archel, to take a single instance, is variously rendered as "at the beginning" (this is quite correct) and, this is translationese, as "When all things began." And the Authorized Version's literal transliteration of St. Paul's "Death is swallowed up in victory" has become "Death is swallowed up; victory...