Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...note. No, you're not. It was a typographical error. The paragraph should read: "I do not mean that every claim of the privilege should automatically be followed by discharge. For there are many possible situations, some very complex. I do mean that discharge on this ground 9by a private corporation) is not always wicked...
...free access theme: "Harvard was synonymous with free minds openly browsing through all the orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise of gentility to suggest that Dunster House students would...
Linotying was under the capable mishandling of the erratic and esthetic Dick Dyer in the twenties, and credit goes to him for about the worst "pruf hak (proof reading error)" in the paper's 80 years. A solemn theological article appeared one morning bearing the head-line, "Christianity: A Positive Farce...
...pleasant tribute came from Eugene L. Jalbert, associate justice of the superior court of Rhode Island, who states, "without fear of error," that he has been a TIME subscriber for 28 years. Writes the judge: "I can hardly believe that TIME is about to hit the 30-year milepost. Time flies because TIME is so companionable and so frequently engrossing. World events whirl so fast that the human eye would not be able to see them in their proper perspective or the human mind to analyze them accurately were it not that TIME, with its world-covering service, brings them...
Giovanni (The Life of Christ) Papini tries to right this excess in his Michelangelo, but sometimes falls into the opposite error-he writes a little patronizingly of the man, almost as if he had paid rent on him. Yet the book gives a vital new contact with one of the fiercest poles of energy in human history...