Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record rack at the Coop, "DEVO" splashed in big letters on its shoulder. As I looked over the latest leavings of the record industry, I glanced to my left to see how many people, like me, had mistaken the advertising display for a fellow shopper before realizing their error. Many did; but the most memorable was the middle-aged matron who bumped into Mr. Devo, courteously said "Excuse me" to him, and went merrily...
Alas, Tish's prose style, though always functional, has all the resonance of a schoolgirl's field hockey stick. Her sample "letter of apology for having seriously offended someone" sounds a little like W.C. Fields: "Dear Hank, There is no way I can erase the tragic error of my bumbling tongue." So with a letter to a colleague about a son who has just won a scholarship to Yale: "You and your wife must be bursting forth with unmitigated but understandable pride...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ·American Caesar, William Manchester ·E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ·In Search of History, Theodore H. White ·Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ·The Annotated Shakespeare, A.L. Rowse ·The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...embalmer (why doesn't he take advantage of the numerous benefit programs for WW II vets?). Initially opposed to the idea of Victor's wrestling, Lenny succumbs to his desire for money and encourages Victor to fight. He pushes him mercilessly. It is the saintly Cosmo who, realizing the error of his own ways, tries to stop Victor from driving himself too hard...
...Perceval rescuing maidens, downing oppressors and entering enchanted houses. Invariably, however, he misconstrues good advice. When he does see the Holy Grail, he does not recognize it or ask about it, having been told by a wise old man that a good knight keeps his mouth shut. For that error he is cursed. He has become a knight, but lost his faith...