Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lippincott, the publisher of a recently released book on cloning, said this week that it has revised the latest printings of the book to correct a misquote of Dr. Bernard D. Davis, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology at the Medical School...
...most Fundamentalists, she believed that God intervened directly in her life to help her on the path to righteousness. In her case, she had wanted to go to Oral Roberts University and she had all the qualifications requisite thereof--good grades, good extracurriculars, good interview, a belief in the correct religious dogmas--but for some inexplicable reason, the good folks at ORU saw fit to reject her. So she went to Creighton, met a lot of good people, began to learn about life and see God's place in it. Finally, one day she had a divine revelation and understood...
...about blacks. Is that an unfairness doctrine, a kind of reverse discrimination? Should shows about blacks be held to a higher standard of relevance, sensitivity and accuracy than those about whites? Though any hard and fast rules would be foolish, an effort to do just that might help correct some deep-seated racial misunderstanding. Whites know about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections and allowances for exaggeration and stupidity when whites are being portrayed. Blacks know something about whites too. But whites in the U.S. still do not know all that much...
...balance, Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry may be correct when he says, "If the question is whether to have blacks portrayed on TV as they are today (as stereotypes), or have them invisible, then obviously you go with what is-and hope for something better...
...debate focuses on the possible benefits of U.S. corporations remaining in South Africa and pursuing progressive racial policies under apartheid. Other questions that loom large in the student-administration "dialogue" concern the role of U.S. banks in financing apartheid and the policies the U.S. government could pursue to help correct the South African government's outrageous abuses, if not to abolish apartheid altogether...