Word: corrects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cayette's direction reflects his concern for simplicity--clearly he believes that visible traces of the director should be suppressed. He avoids acrobatic photography and specious moralizing and presents his movie with wonderful honesty and realism. Every setting seems perfectly correct, yet the background never distracts attention from the actors. His photography is direct, only occasionally adding a touch of subtle decoration to emotions it portrays...
Deacon Mushrat is the first of these memorable figures, a Godsymp if there ever was one. "It should be brought out at this point," he intones at us in his mock Gothic script, nose and pince nex dabbling the air above the rostrum, "that the right handed person is correct, natural, and beloved by Providence." The tone deepens and the face frowns, nose still dabbling at the suspect air. "It has occurred to some of us who keep our eyes open that there are entirely too many left handed people worming their way into positions of power. According to reliable...
...most rabid Southern group publicly confessing that the South cannot satisfy even its most ill-educated, ignorant Negroes, that--and this is a crushing admission--there is a Negro problem in the South. Responsible Southern newspapers have already read this lesson into the rides, and they are absolutely correct. The segregationists are confessing that Southern society is a failure...
...spaceshipload of them were to blast off tomorrow, they could not predict their landing point within thousands of miles. Such uncertainty could be disastrous, and Physicist F. E. Lowther of General Electric Co. hopes to do something about it. He is starting his campaign with an effort to correct that old reliable constant of physics: the speed of light (now calculated at 186,282 m.p.h...
...Commager's technique, however, is not that of a neophyte, for he moves with ease from the world of scholia and emendations to that of tone and imagery. At one point he combines the two methods quite neatly, when he uses Horace's consistent seasonal metaphor as evidence to correct a reading suggested by the magisterial Bentley...