Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening work, Mozart's Quartet in C-major, K.465 (1785), with its famous pessimistic introduction, contains some daring harmony which several of the composer's contemporaries felt obliged to "correct." But just as important is the extraordinarily limpid texture and intense purity that extend from first note to last...
Although Mr. Halberstam may be correct about white Southern parents being apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes who have a higher disease rate than whites, he fails to emphasize the fact that many of these white parents are themselves responsible for this situation. Having been relegated for centuries to the lowest economic position in the United States generally and in the South particularly, it is not surprising that Negroes have the highest disease rate of any other group in this country...
Although Mr. Halberstam may be correct about white Southern parents being apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes who have a higher disease rate than whites, he fails to emphasize the fact that many of these white parents are themselves responsible for this situation. Having been relegated for centuries to the lowest economic position in the United States generally and in the South particularly, it is not surprising that Negroes have the highest disease rate of any other group in this country...
Dulles' statement of Goa's relationship to Portugal was, of course, factually correct. Portugal has held sway in Goa for a long time. Goans are citizens of Portugal, etc. But what Mr. Dulles does not seem to realize is that the truth plainly stated does not constitute the whole of grace in diplomatic affairs. His specific reference to Goa as "a province" of Portugal may have been true, but it was not politic and not necessary...
...Smith shot out over the Pacific and pointed his plane upward to test its rate of climb. He broke through cloud cover at 8,000 ft. At 35,000 ft. he approached the speed of sound, still climbing, and felt his ship get slightly nose-heavy. He tried to correct it but could not. Something had gone wrong with the plane...