Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your May 1st article entitled "Council Debates Rugby Grant, Heckling Policy." Although I have many concerns regarding the misrepresentation of the events of the meeting. I will confine my remarks to the quote attributed to me by Ms. Engelmayer. To the best of my recollection, the actual words are correct, but the context in which she places them completely distort my viewpoint. She writes that...
...largely common-sense analysis and proposals with which he has confronted doctors. But as is so often the case with Bok pronouncements, his words carry a ring of irony given that it is Harvard that is one of the worst perpetrators of the ills he is trying to correct...
...often been used as a basis for pot-shots at poets of all types. But Williamson sees no need to go on the defensive, and the assumption that underlies his refusal "to apologize for regarding the self as one of the great human and poetic subjects," is a correct one. As Williamson points out, such poetry is less susceptible to vague abstraction since it less often presumes to make universal generalizations. He does not need to add that critiques of a poem's subject matter are often a substitute for proper scrutiny...
Liza Dalby's Geisha does much to correct the misimpressions, and in the process reseals an amusing, fascinating world that preserves the past by holding banquets and entertaining modern Japanese businessmen. Dalby's book is written with a sympathy and understanding for the geisha world that brings these women to life. There are flaws in Dalby's elegantly written book, for it too often concentrates on the form of Geisha life rather than the actual substance...
...Dyson's dependence on what is basically a shift in conciousness is disturbing, could such a shift actually lead to fundamental change? Dyson maintains that. "If the turning is real, it will find appropriate political forms in which to express itself." One can but hope that he is correct, and that the warriors and the victims will soon learn to speak the same language-one that can be heard by world leaders everywhere...