Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consensus, however, can be a useful pointer, and a growing consensus outside the Catholic Church obliges it to reconsider what the good of man really demands and, where necessary, to correct traditional positions...
...shepherded the jury during their 26-hour deliberation. For one thing, they claimed to have heard him say: "Oh, that wicked fellow, he is guilty." For another, the bailiff apparently had assured them that if convicting Parker turned out to be a mistake, "the Supreme Court will correct...
...graduate of a Jesuit institution like the College of Holy Cross, I should be interested to learn how the two young men (Mr. George E. Engdahl Jr. and Mr. Robert M. Conway) have fared since they dared to write -and have published -a letter [Dec. 2] correctly stating that the stand of the Roman Catholic Church is "narrow-minded, archaic," etc., rebirth control. Their correct appraisal is equaled only by their outright courage -for I can recall the day when to voice, much less to publish, a critique of the church, by a student within one of its institutions...
...giving between husband and wife, that is virtually an index of the success of a marriage. Only in the closest of unions would a husband succeed in buying the right kind of antique Wedgwood vase; and if he knows the correct size for a half-slip, he almost knows too much. On the other hand, it takes more than love-profound intuition and knowledge of character-for a wife to choose the right necktie for her husband. In marital giving, moveover, there is a subtle language: the pingpong table as a gentle hint to the husband who does not spend...
Kiely expressed the same concern in a recent article in the Radcliffe Quarterly. "Style is not an incidental appendage of the mind. Nor is the correct and graceful use of language a simple matter of well regulated memory." Students whose "good preparation" in secondary school has made them complacent about their writing are the targets of Kiely's worry...