Word: errata
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...final week of the Montreal Olympics will inevitably add its quota of such human errata to the history of the Games. But the main text will be provided by the track and field athletes performing in the $700 million concrete stadium that hovers over the Olympic Park like the fossil of some monstrous crustacean. And immediately the absence of Black Africa's runners was felt. In the first day of track heats, New Zealand's John Walker, the world's fastest miler, failed even to qualify for the 800-meter semifinals. This was only a tune...
Gone was the old language of sin among these later founders. Franklin spoke not of sins but, as a publisher would, of "Errata." He grounded virtue in "the Laws of our Nature" and in man's character as "a sociable being." Jefferson believed that "morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution." He and his physician friend Benjamin Rush spoke for those who thought of man as having a moral faculty and of vice as a kind of curable disease. In his view, good habits and moral practice reproduced health and virtue...
...tell you how much-$50. I get paid $3,000 to write a piece of music. My publisher has to spend $10,000 to get the thing ready for publication. When it comes out, I find that it has hundreds of errors in it. I send him an errata...
Dreamed up by Executive Producer Lewis Freedman, the series will describe bits of American history, data and errata, the momentous and the obscure. The 732 minutes-of the newspaper filler "on this day 200 years ago" variety -will be narrated, says the network, by "everyone from movie stars to Supreme Court Justices." Sample Minutes: Actor Barry Sullivan recounting the career of Tom Paine, Charlton Heston describing George Washington's reaction to the Boston Tea Party, Richard Crenna explaining the impact of the fuel crisis in Boston in the year 1774, and Jean Stapleton revealing Martha Washington's secret...
...would be interested in mere cash. These were gods and they were playing in the big leagues. The AFL could buy some rookies, but what made it stand out were the porous pass defenses, jetburner receivers, and well... flakes. You know. Madmen. The unforeseeable. The untamed. The masters of errata...