Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correct answer (12 ft.) was given by 82% of the 17-year-olds from solidly middle-class urban areas but only 29% of the poor teen-agers got it right...
...young Italian soprano arrives from Udine with her American husband to audition for Pavarotti. After an aria and a few exercises, he says he cannot evaluate her voice because her notes are produced from the chest without proper support. "A baby crying is a perfect demonstration of correct vocal technique," he tells her. "The baby chooses a note that is comfortable and can cry all night without tiring or getting a sore throat. Why? Because it produces the sound in the natural way, by pushing it up from the diaphragm...
Harvard mailed some of its tenants their rent increase notices after the legal deadline, and officials say they had no plans to tell tenants of the situation or to correct it. "It's not our fault," Robert Silverman, Real Estate Department offical said, blaming city administrative foul-ups for the delay...
Maybe he's right. After all, the same thing happened some years ago to modern European students. To correct that situation, Donald Fleming, Trumball Professor of American History, agreed to alternate between American and European intellectual history--as a result, this year he's teaching European...
...Scalise is correct in believing that hard work will make or break a team, the Crimson should be playing the Cosmos in the Meadowlands...