Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article in yesterday's Crimson incorrectly reported the total amount of this year's Harvard Coop rebate. The correct figure is $2.5 million...
...Broadway drama Plenty. That same year, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, allegedly fearful of disruptions and of losing donor support, dumped Redgrave from scheduled performances as narrator of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. She brought a civil rights suit pleading that "people's livelihoods should not depend upon their holding 'correct' political views." The U.S. Supreme Court last January rejected her bid for a punitive-damages award, although it let stand a judgment of $39,500 to cover lost employment -- an amount far smaller than the legal fees she spent fighting for her principles...
...again until the time allotted for block-building expires. And "No talking, while you're building," a teacher scolds. Or while you're eating, for that matter, or while you're going to the bathroom. "Sit upright, with hands clasped behind your backs," says another teacher. "That is correct behavior...
...first time in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 and federal regulations require the pilot to take off and fly in bad weather. Next day, after questioning the two, the National Transportation Safety Board reported that Kleissaf had accidentally pushed a button that decelerated the plane. Martin tried to correct the situation manually, then aborted the takeoff when the plane began to vibrate. The Federal Aviation Administration suspended the licenses of both...
Half-serious, half-mocking in tone, the book is a Bartlett's of botches that cannot decide whether it wants to be a reference book for hack writers--footnotes and all--or a coffee-table text for the literati--hence the discussion of "quotesmanship," with the politically-correct parentheses presenting quotes-woman beside quotesman...