Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fish is correct when he says that only the very best tennis squad makes it to the NCAA tourney. But that doesn't bother Harvard one bit, because all the netmen are quite optimistic about their chances of retaining the Ivy League flag...
...Supreme Judicial Court in 1980 stated in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional: "While this court has the power to correct constitutional or other errors by ordering new trials for capital defendents whose appeals are pending or who have been fortunate enough to obtain stays of execution or commutations, it cannot, of course, raise the dead." Legislators should not push Massachusetts into following others in this practice, but rather, should preserve this state as an example...
...Navy captain correct? Has a quality called Excellence gone under like Atlantis in an inundation of the third-rate, a deluge of plastics, junk food, bad movies, cheap goods and trashy thought? The question has been asked since well before the decline of Athens; the answer is generally yes-but wait. There is an enduring ecology of excellence in the world. It is a good idea to remember Thomas Merton's question: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth and Frank and Norman and Lombard had mingled...
Sontag, in other words, is correct in what she says But there is a lot left unsaid Which is a far cry from saying that there aren't sides to be taken it is entirely likely that El Salvador, should the revolution prevail, will be ruled by a L. Leninist party (especially if the U.S. continues its carefully concerted plan to drive the rebels into the arms of Moscow). Still Sontag says she "passionately supports" their cause, and so should the rest of us. Sandinista Nicaragua is no waystation on the road to nirvana: still and all, there are considerably...
...would like to correct some of the more glaring factual inaccuracies and ommissions in Adam Cohen's reporting of Women's History Week at Harvard and Radcliffe (March...