Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether all this adds up to a favorable or unfavourable "racial image" (whatever on earth that may be) I don't know. Frankly, I couldn't care less. I can say, however, that Jeffrey Howard is perfectly correct in remarking that "Kilson's views are not particularly black," if by this he means I resist anti-intellectualism and racial bigotry. Indeed, he could have said more: I despise racial bigots and the know-nothing mentality, and am rather proud of it. Martin Kilson Assistant Professor of Government
...head of the English Department at Ohio State University, which is producing the M.L.A.'s Hawthorne edition. Twain Scholar Hen ry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley complains that "Wilson paws and snorts like a bull moose. He seems to be saying that we should correct serious distortions, but doesn't realize that you can't tell if it's distorted unless you do the research...
...perfection to an impossible excess. Of course, the film is being billed as a kind of epic-satire, and this kind of excess is the staple of satire. But to satirize history is absurd. A historical film can only try to depict and explain; satire is meant to correct, and history cannot be corrected. For this reason Richardson is at his worst when he attempts to satirize the Victorian establishment, and unfortunately, he attempts this rather often...
According to Pentagon estimates and private studies, Nixon's figures are correct. In the past 18 months this country, with its force of 1054 land-based missiles, has watched the Soviets climb from 340 to about 800 ICBM's. Despite official American predictions, the Soviets seem to be maintaining this pace...
...their accomplishments the three new U.S. Nobelmen have not only provided a clearer understanding of the nature of life, they have brought closer the day when molecular biologists will be able to correct genetic defects, control heredity, and perhaps even create life itself...