Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite persistant oversimplification, Blake makes him point well: we have turned and continue to turn "our beautiful inheritance into the biggest slum on the face of the earth." He leaves little doubt that perversions of our natural beauty should disturb us far less than our failures to recognize and correct them...
...Discutir. The sticking point was a matter of semantics-a single verb in the agreement, but an all-important one. The Spanish-language version read "negociar"-to negotiate. The English version read "discuss." Panamanians insisted that since the working language of the OAS meetings was Spanish, their version was correct, and suggested that U.S. Envoy Martin, who does not speak Spanish, was confused. At first, the diplomats considered using the word discutir. But a Spanish-language purist objected that discutir implied argumentative discussion. Thus negociar, a softer word that means both discuss and negotiate, was substituted. Unconfused, Ed Martin...
...that they accepted him as their mother and apparently thought other humans were just big chickens. He listened carefully while their baby peeps changed to adult chicken language, and found that it came from instinct and never varied appreciably. Roosters raised in isolation from other chickens always crow correctly without learning how; isolated hens make correct clucking noises as soon as they feel ready to brood...
...attempt to conceal his hatred of the Puritans, for instance. They are "fanatics," "frightful kill-joys," and "obnoxious," while one of their leaders, Robert Browne, is "un-attractive, ill-tempered, wife-beating." In reading his histories, one may simply take note of Rowse's strongly stated biases, and correct for them in matters of opinion. But when he brings to literary criticism the same assertiveness, and fails to provide the evidence on which he makes his assertions, he not only annoys his readers, but fails to convince them...
...AMERICAN MOTORS. Though its sales (113,827) also set a company record, American Motors dropped from 6.2% to 5.5% of the market. Its problem was that, with only smaller-sized autos to sell, it missed out on the upswing in large-car sales. The company hopes to correct the situation by adding about 10 in. to the wheelbase of its '65 Ambassador line...