Word: corrections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...borders dangerously close to a call for violence against gays. No, the three members of Peninsula with whom I am familiar (Matthew J. McDonald, Adam Jones and Roger Landry) struck me as devout, well-intentioned young men who see a widespread problem on our campus (homosexuality), and want to correct...
...think it's a bit condescending of my fellow students at Peninsula to tell me that my desires for women are wrong, and should be stopped through "public policy and community standards," simply because these desires do not fit into their neat, biblical conceptions of what constitutes "correct" sex; that is, heterosexual sex used only for the purposes of procreation...
...early November, amid their second big push toward Moscow, the Germans were already suffering their first severe cases of frostbite. Soviet General (later Marshal) Georgi Zhukov reportedly noted that the enemy was perhaps too efficient: its soldiers had been supplied with the correct size boots. Russians, he said, knew enough to wear oversize footwear -- the better to stuff with wool and straw to protect toes against the cold. A popular Russian caricature of the time had the Fritzes -- as German soldiers were less than affectionately called -- wrapped in anything they could grab out of occupied civilian homes -- including women...
Plagiarism is officially the only paper-writing no-no we are supposed to worry about. The Ad Board insists that students cite quotes correctly, don't turn in the same paper to two classes and include correct footnotes. But they could probably care less if we totally misconstrue Marxist theory or get our signifiers and signifieds mixed...
...Germany or elsewhere. Communism and socialism have been so compromised that an alternative left-wing movement has been fragmented and deprived of its inherent force. I do not expect to live to see the emergence of a new alternative, but I do still believe one will develop to correct the dark sides of this society...