Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correct this situation in the Charles and to solve similar problems in the greater Boston area, the MDC began a $104 million sewer expansion program in 1954. The project called for a three to five-fold increase in the capacity of trunk lines and the construction of two new treatment plants in Boston Harbor. Although a scandal in 1959 interrupted the program for two years, it should be completed sometime in 1965. After 1965, the Charles and other nearby rivers should be pollution-free...
...literary criticism. A bald assertion like "Perhaps Henry James might better be described as the greatest feminine novelist of any age. If anything, such sniping gets in derstand the man, his writing, or his age. If anything such sniping gets in the way. Geismar means to correct the contemporary estimate of James and to locate him more precisely in the history of American literature--a commendable object, surely. But, because of his approach, he only succeeds in directing a barrage of snide footnotes at his colleagues and in reducing poor James to a psychological heap...
...character with the man as you described him-a pragmatic, intensely curious intellectual. It was not out of character that he should carry a handgun, but that he should prefer an automatic pistol to a revolver. Knowing your reputation for accurate reporting, I decided you must be correct, though most outdoorsmen prefer revolvers. They are safer; a variety of loads and bullet shapes can be fired through them, including shot cartridges, for use against snakes...
...correct...
...that their dispatches tended to reinforce their own collective judgment, which was severely critical of practically everything. What they reported about the course of the war was seriously questioned in Washington; what they wrote about the deterioration of the Diem government (not sufficiently emphasized in the TIME story) was correct -and confirmed all around, even unintentionally by Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu (TIME cover, Aug. 9) as she made her noisy way around the world...