Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book unless Trilling removed some remarks about Lillian Hellman in an essay defending American liberals' role in the anticommunist movement of the '50s. (A classic liberal, Trilling considers communism a terrible danger. In a 1967 essay included in this volume, she says the war in Vietnam is a serious error, not because it represents American aggression, but because it is not the best way to stop the Red Menace.) Trilling refused to comply with the publisher. She justifies her argument that Hellman's Scoundrel Time will mislead younger readers into thinking liberal support of the House Unamerican Activities Committee...
...typographical error, The Crimson yesterday reported that two-thirds to three-fourths of the senior concentrators in Social Studies will not graduate with departmental honors. Actually, two-thirds to three-fourths of the students will graduate with honors in Social Studies and a number of others may graduate cum laude in General Studies. The Crimson regrets the error...
...general's error was not in what he said but how he said it-publicly. Other U.S. military men have confined their own intense criticism of the withdrawal to private conversations or testimony before congressional committees. At a time when the U.S. is conducting delicate SALT negotiations with the Soviet Union, any indication that American military men are in any way out of control could upset the talks...
...slip up this year an accepted male student received a Radcliffe letter of acceptance as a result of a computer error. He had one of those borderline names like Leslie, Jewett says, and the computer had his name stored in the female file...
...military trial was held. Eleven officers and soldiers were convicted of "carrying out illegal orders"--and given extraordinarily light sentences, which were subsequently shortened still more. After continued public recrimination, the commander responsible for the original orders was put on trial--and fined one piastre for a "technical error." Yet, the press was largely silent about Israel's "My Lai." Neither Deir Yassin nor Kfar Kassim was an isolated incident; Juryis documents numerous similar, if less dramatic incidents...