Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman or a homosexual? When this question first began gnawing at me last spring, I had no satisfying answer. I just knew that my immediate instinct--that none of the above was the answer--troubled me. So I decided to find out a) if my gut was correct...
...going to be politically correct in the resuscitation of the children's classic The Story of Little Black Sambo [BOOKS, Sept. 9], let's at least get the facts correct. Anyone who has ever read the original Sambo story knows it has nothing to do with Africa, but was set in India. For one thing, wild tigers are not found in Africa; they exist only in Asia. Also, Africans are not the only black people in the world. The dark-skinned folk in the story have characteristics similar to those of an ethnic group in southern India. To assume that...
...think sometimes in our quest for equality and especially in a politically correct atmosphere like Cambridge. [these feelings abound]," Gallucio says. "However, I think there has to be a recognition of diversity, which means celebrating holidays of all ethnic, religious and racial [backgrounds...
...third suite, however, that he carried us to Nirvana, majestically transporting Bach's popular Bourree and finally enrapturing the auditorium with a sweeping and textured Gigue. For the sixth suite, Wispelwey played a "periodically correct" violoncello piccolo with five strings, as opposed to the contemporary cello's four, entrancing the listeners with a frolicking and triumphal first Gavotte...
...George is frustrated by the fact that he doesn't know his lines or what is expected of him. At one moment he unexpectedly drops his pants, only to look down, surprised and confused, and say, "I didn't mean to do that." The more he grapples for the correct lines, the funnier the play becomes. Left alone on stage to deliver a Hamlet soliloquy, George runs through all the lines he has ever memorized, from the Pledge of Allegiance to quotes from Gone With the Wind...