Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...followed the coverage of Jiang's American tour, his facility in avoiding any head-on confrontation started to irk me. Eventually I decided that it wouldn't hurt if Jiang--a man who just last week called the government-sponsored shootings at Tiananmen square "the correct conclusion"--knew what it felt like to be jeered at, and even detested...
Pinney said she looked forward to using the "wonderful" collections in Harvard museums as teaching tools, but said she would try to keep the correct mind set about being a member of the Faculty...
...analogy, and only as an analogy, let's pretend the headline stated "Gay Black Students Form New Group." This would inspire more than just a debate over what labels ought to be used for minority students in newspapers. It would be wrong. Obviously, "students of color" is the correct term, since not all the students were black...
...educated world uses? The word may be inadequate, but it certainly does a better job than "gay." The editors may find this to be a politically charged word, but so is the phrase "people of color." The fact that some people will always take words that are correct, and call them "politically correct," as a method of implying that they are not really correct, should not deter The Crimson editors from making it a policy to report accurately...
Since I'm sure that's what the editors want to do anyway, I hope you'll start making steps to correct this policy of using "gay" as a toned down code word for "queer." It is wrong factually, as well as limiting, backwards and reductive. --Gowri Ramachandran, GSAS