Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accept the Virtues. In the first place, he argues, science enjoys "a total lack of authoritarianism . . . accomplished by one of the most exacting of intellectual disciplines. [The scientist] learns the possibility of error very early. He learns that there are ways to correct his mistakes; he learns the futility of trying to conceal them...
...final examination, his connection with the course is ended. From then on the work is done by any number of assistants who, although they are probably just event college graduates themselves, have complete control over the grade received by each undergraduate. Most assistants have so many papers to correct that marking is certain to become come mechanical and is also likely to be affected by errors of carelessness from tine to time. Anyone who has found on obvious mistake in the marking of his bluebook and has attempted to have the course grade changed knows what an impressibly involved process...
...state that [an] 1859 penny has an "unidentified" Indian on the obverse [TIME, Jan. 19]. If my information is correct, the model was not an Indian but was Sarah Longacre, then twelve years old. Miss Longacre posed for her father, who at that time was Chief Engraver for the Mint...
...were to be frightened into our salvation. We were told that we must have world government and have it at once-within a definite and implacable time schedule-or we were goners. Our own special vulnerability to atomic warfare was told and retold in a way that was correct but fearsome in the extreme. Maps of New York City were published showing in detail just what ghastly horrors would occur if an atomic bomb . . . was dropped in the Hudson River...
...tells the story of Richard Styles Eliot, publicity whiz for Publishers Hutchinson, Inc.,* "a perfectly authentic young-man-on-the-way-up, with all the trimmings: insomnia, a nice apartment on the correct street, seven suits, and the urge to leave his wife." His boss believed that "books are merchandise, like soap or toothpaste or fountain pens." Dick Eliot felt cheap and dishonest, but he was also a social climber with his eye on a social-register widow. So he promoted trash and got himself a nice raise...