Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey-haired man were correct, as such men are apt to be, then Harvard can be a haven for maturity and ofttimes for happiness. For the College, although we rarely admit it to ourselves, is the place to conform. At first glance Harvard seems to be the haven for the individualist, but after some inspection (and introspection) it becomes apparent that undergraduates are trying to be different in the same basic ways...
...Says So? Although both brother and sister declare that no one use of language is "correct," their book is built around what they call "respectable English," that is, "English used by educated people when they are speaking in public or writing to strangers." The Evanses hastily point out that this "respectable" English has no more inherent merit than any other, and that it is constantly changing. But they still use the concept as a standard. Much of the debate about the Evanses' book will swirl around the two obvious questions raised by their definition of respectable English...
...chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak correct English...
...questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want to say?" Girard said no, and went back to his seat. Judge Kawachi recalled him to the stand. "You have nothing to say? Can you point out facts in the charge that you do not think are correct?" Girard conferred with his Japanese attorney, Itsuro Hayashi, replied: "... It was a pure accident as far as I'm concerned, and I'm sorry about...
...assumed that there could be no connection between the two ways of writing. But Scholar Gordon, a Ph.D. in Semitic languages from the University of Pennsylvania, had a hunch there was. "When I started this research," he admits, "I was merely setting out to see whether my notion was correct. At first I was frustrated at every turn because I thought that Phoenician-or West Semitic-was the language root. But Phoenician only seemed to fit the puzzle in certain limited instances." Was there another language that would fit better...