Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Japan's new nationalist Premier, Ichiro Hatoyama, announced that his first move to correct occupation-made law would be to scrap Article 9 of the constitution, "because this Article is open to misinterpretation and leads to much unnecessary confusion...
...portrayal of angels as harmless, effeminate creatures bored with a purposeless existence. We object to their portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German poet Rilke says, 'Their presence is the first degree of the terrible.' " Furthermore, great artists...
Surprise Witness. While the Courier-Journal "deplored" Braden's race-relations tactics, it defended his refusal to answer questions about his political beliefs as "quite correct." Many a reader disagreed. Communism, they pointed out, has long been recognized as a criminal conspiracy, not simply a political belief...
...house teams the Center lost by only one touchdown. A veteran observer at the IAB holds a slightly different interpretation. "It seems to me that on defensive goal line stands Dudley can fight back against anyone, but when they go on the offense, nothing quite comes off right." Whether correct or not, it is true that much of Dudley's efforts to organize teams is aimed at supplementing the negative spirit of opposition with a positive drive for taking part. Last year the Center was unable to field teams in golf, fencing, or the squash "A" bracket. Part...
...making. Harold Ickes was primarily interested in great events in so far as they soothed or ruffled Harold Ickes. Nevertheless, The Lowering Clouds (Simon & Schuster; $6), third published volume of Ickes' sometimes fascinating diary, does make a contribution to historical accuracy: it should go far to correct the deep public impression that Harold Ickes was a lovable and forth right "old curmudgeon." He reveals himself as a devious old egotist...