Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wall of his apartment house blossom overnight into a colorful mosaic of Procter & Gamble billboards. Havel, who hopes to use the billboard fees to restore the building's crumbling facade, has shrewdly insisted on veto power over the content of the ads. P&G happily obliged with a politically correct mix of environmental messages that stress the company's commitment to cleanliness. Got any wall space in Kennebunkport, President Bush...
...current politically correct climate, Donne's rapturous recognition can easily be dismissed as a typically white European male response toward unclaimed territory, combining voyeurism, sex and predatory aggression. This reading filters out all the fun and, more important, the awe and wonder that the Americas sparked in European minds. And the New World fed Europe more than literary tropes, intellectual excitement and a whiff of the exotic. It fed Europe . . . food, stuff that native Americans had been cultivating for thousands of years and that Europeans had never heard of: peppers, paprika, potatoes, corn, tomatoes...
...this politically correct prequel, Hawkeye displays the Eurocentric tendencies to hunt and waste. Local Native Americans lecture him on ageism, gender bias, affirmative action and ecological consciousness until he has a nervous collapse, jettisons his rifle and opens a frontier health-food store...
...debate over the "Politically Correct," however, double negatives take on a different meaning. This week, professors from around the country--including Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr.--announced the formation of "Teachers for a Democratic Culture," dedicated to fending off the recent wave of right-wing attacks against left-wing intellectual orthodoxy...
...support "Teachers for a Democratic Culture," then, not because we believe that "politically correct" views are inherently better than "politically incorrect" views, but because the group is a necessary antidote to the excesses of pc critics. The right maneuvered into a powerful position by portraying itself as an oppressed minority. Hopefully, "Teachers for a Democratic Culture" won't let them get away with...