Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will you be good enough to allow me to correct two misapprehensions which have arisen from the recent CRIMSON story about plans for next year's college-wide Charity Drive...
...authority to speak for the Western alliance as a whole-though the British picture him, after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope, in his urbane way. to correct a few misimpressions (he expected to find Russia as much changed from his brief 1929 visit, he said at the airport, as "England is today from the picture painted by Dickens"-an amiable dart at Russia's favorite source of knowledge about Britain). He further hoped during his visit...
Millions of Americans pick up the telephone to get the weather or the correct time, shopping news, stock market quotations, recorded prayers, bird watchers' bulletins, and even (in Boston) advice to those contemplating suicide. Teen-agers could hardly live without the telephone -and many parents can hardly live with it. Twisted into every position-so long as it is uncomfortable-teen-agers keep the busy signals going with deathless conversation: "What ya doin? Yeah. I saw him today. Yeah. I think he likes me. Wait'll I change ears. Whaat? Hold on till I get a glass...
...seems from the above description of tonight's visitors that the Crimson shouldn't have dropped an early decision to them that impression is correct. That night the varsity put on a display of the kind of basketball that has since become a thing of its past. And from all appearances, the Bruins were playing over their heads...
...trust you will correct this misunderstanding by printing my letter. James A. Coulter