Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing a biography of Jackson, calls Rehnquist's explanation "absurd." Jackson always instructed his clerks to express their own views, not his, says Hutchinson. Last year Rehnquist stated that he now believes that the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision Brown vs. Board of Education outlawing school segregation is correct, but added, "I think there was a perfectly reasonable argument the other...
Paleontologists do not argue with those who accept this account on faith. But they take strong issue with practition-ers of "creation science," who purport to offer scientific evidence that this Fred Flintstone version of prehistory is correct. For decades a strong piece of that "evidence" has been a cluster of fossilized tracks in the seasonally dry bed of the Paluxy Creek, near Glen Rose, Texas. One track of three-toed footprints was obviously made by a dinosaur. The feet that made another track, crossing the first at an angle, lacked the giant toes and looked human to some...
...Dynasty) that make them unmistakably American artifacts? To a good part of the rest of the world, the U.S. is nothing but its global pop gush. Not the Bill of Rights, not Mary Cassatt, not George Balanchine but Madonna, The A-Team and Sidney Sheldon. The respectable pieties are correct: sure, America is the land of freedom and the land of opportunity. But it is perhaps more lovably the land of great tap dancing and terrific special effects, the land of oomph...
...Miami Vice. The U.S. is amazingly rich; look at Falcon Crest. The U.S. is zany--and rich and violent; look at Beverly Hills Cop. It is telling that Vanessa Redgrave defends Dynasty and Dallas on Trotskyist grounds. These portrayals of American ruling-class mischief, she says, are politically correct...
...else do they make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Passions run high in defense of personal favorites and the proper way to make them: Should the bread that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat, and if so, should the lettuce ever be iceberg? The Easterner regards the California predilection for mayonnaise on hamburgers as strictly an aberration, and to true New Yorkers...