Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people in that tense crowd were none too pleased with what we'd done to apologize for a mistake that words could only begin to correct. It was the first of many meetings that weekend, and, for a while there, a couple of us saw that session heading for disaster. It got particularly bad when one of the members of the Black Students Association got very angry and started yelling. I remember asking her to calm down, telling her that "we invited you here for a discussion," and being told very quickly to shut up. "This ain't no discussion...
...obviously never taught to play baseball the way he does, because he lives by an ethereal instinct on the field. In center, he moves with the ball, not simply to it or at it. At the plate, his swing has nothing unnatural about it; the stroke is so patently correct, that others are no doubt compelled to try to copy it: the high left elbow, the perfect isoceles triangle of arms and chest at the moment of contact, and the long and level follow-through. But no one could imitate it, at least not exactly, because for all its simplicity...
...consequences, of their theories. But if they lose sole possession of their ideas, they must continue to demand accurate representation. Although they are not responsible for any abuse, they are responsible for publicizing this abuse. Like T.S. Eliot's literary critic, the scientist's duty is to interpret and correct...
Nevelson's disciplined work habits remain exactly the same as they have been for the past 40 years. Quick to correct those who call her a night owl, she describes herself as a "dawn person"; she likes to rise at 4:30 a.m. and start work, sometimes on the big constructions she is best known for, sometimes on the multitude of studies-a mere fragment of wood glued to a dark mounting sheet-that she produces in lieu of drawings and that form teetering stacks in the upstairs studios...
Even here there were problems, he notes, for it is very difficult to find authors whom Soviet authorities consider acceptable. What is "correct" one day may be banned the next. For a long time, for example, John Steinbeck was one of the most popular American writers in the Soviet Union. But when he went to Vietnam and wrote about his experiences there, the Soviet press criticized him severely. Publication of all of his works was stopped in 1968, and did not resume for another ten years...