Word: errants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shabby doings, Ervin's devotion to law and liberty shone by contrast. His eyebrows dancing up and down like puppets on a string, he made his points sharply and supported them with apt quotations from Shakespeare and the Bible. He sympathized while he remonstrated with the errant public servants, and redemption was always possible. Ervin intended the investigation to educate the American people, and he succeeded. In turn, he became a culture hero, filling lecture halls with adoring audiences, inspiring youngsters to don T shirts bearing his benign image...
...American College of Surgeons has condemned operations by insufficiently qualified surgeons, fee splitting between surgeons and the physicians who send them patients, and needless surgery. But while the college's professed policies are unimpeachably correct, effectiveness and enforcement are another matter. The college expels few of its errant members and does not publish the names of those expelled. Even after expulsion, a doctor can continue to practice "cut more, make more" surgery until some remote state board lifts his license-if it ever does. In fact, many state boards have not revoked a single license in years...
...virtual disappearance of the anchovies did not result entirely from the errant current, according to Fisheries Research Adviser C.P. Idyll. Writing in Scientific American, he places much of the blame on human greed. U.N. and Peruvian experts had long recommended that the fishing industry take no more than 10 million tons of anchovies a year; that catch would not prevent the fish population from reproducing itself annually. But in 1970 the fishermen caught a record 12 million tons, and almost 11 million in 1971. As a result, Idyll believes, the anchovy stocks are so depleted that they may take years...
From The Ginger Man on, J.P. Donleavy's novels have been simultaneously cruel, sentimental, repetitive and sporadically funny. Donleavy heroes are ridiculous figures who wallow in self-pity behind their mannered fronts and anesthetize deep personal hurts with sex and alcohol. Like Cornelius Treacle Christian, the errant knight in tweed armor of A Fairy Tale of New York, Donleavy's people move around a lot-"Moving all the time," says Christian, "hoping for a master stroke of solace somewhere...
...game was a scoreless deadlock until midway through the third quarter when Wendel, the adjustor (O'Neill's name for a middle line backer-safety), intercepted an errant screen pass and ran it back for a touchdown. James Curry added the point after to make the score...