Word: correctives
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Stokes does point out that the Chafetz book is curiously self-indulgent, written as a first-person narrative of one man's odyssey in search of the truth, whereas McNamara strikes a strong pose of journalistic objectivity, with her crisp prose and confident tone. But Stokes is correct--even if both of these books are "biased," only one of them could be said to be "croppled" by it, and that book is McNamara's. And it is croppled largely because of its posture of objectivity...
...attempt to answer this basic question,the JIR solicits stories form scientistsworldwide. Recent publications have included apolitically correct table of the elements, and astudy on the effects of peanut butter on therotation of the earth...
...Undergraduate Council, and I personally oppose the term bill increase. Nevertheless, I found Daniel Altman's editorial, "Put a Leash on the Council" (April 13, 1994) to be unnecessarily harsh and unforgiving towards the much-maligned council. I believe Altman has the letter of the law correct when he says that the petition has enough signatures and should be put to referendum as it is written...
Still, drawing from my own experience. I feel that Gabay is correct in his sense that the petition was primarily signed by people who were concerned about the term bill increase, and were not very aware of the other issues raised by the petition...
...that was long ago, before the '60s -- from which all ominous changes can be dated -- rewrote the rules of American gesture. Such previously banal signifiers as handshakes and haircuts, comic books and pop music, became freighted with contentiousness. Soon Steve Martin was introducing politically correct comedy to the smoking debate. "Mind if I smoke?" he imagined someone asking him, then replied, "No. Mind if I fart?" In the '80s, even James Bond felt bad about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean...