Word: errs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ulich charged that schools of education err in failing to discuss the broad values of education with their graduate students, "who are incapable of reaching beyond the immediate utility of this or that branch of learning...
Americans are not alone in the mistakes they make: European firms often err themselves when they move into another European country. And Europeans concede from hard experience that American businessmen are by no means innocents abroad. "U.S. business methods are often the best there are," says Michael Grunelius, Paris-based specialist in placing corporate executives. "But these methods have to be changed to accommodate local conditions." Increasingly, U.S. companies find the rich European market, for all its problems, worth a try. Since 1958, more than 2,100 U.S. companies have started new operations or licensed the manufacture of their products...
...Sheppard. In freeing him, a federal judge blasted Cleveland newspapers for "trying" Sheppard ("a mockery of justice") with such editorial outbursts as GET THAT KILLER (TiME, July 24). For their part, newsmen refuse to surrender the right of the press to alert and inform the public. Though they may err on the side of sensationalism, their job is al ways to dig out all the facts. The Constitution, after all, guarantees a free press just as firmly as it does due process. The tough problem here, as it frequently is in the law, is to balance both cherished values...
...faceted diamond filled with silver, singing girders. It is part of Indiana's American-dream theme, as are his Mother and Father Diptych showing his parents stepping into a Model T and his word columns-salvaged sailing-ship masts covered with typical Indiana "dream" words Eat, Hug, Love, Err, Die. Through...
...ERR? Indiana is primarily known for his emblematic circles set in plane-geometry shapes like road signs. Their bright, unmixed colors are so unpainterly that his brush stroke cannot be detected, because, as he says, "impasto is visual indigestion." Usually they are ringed with inscriptions: phrases from Melville and Whitman, or commands in broken stencil type such as EAT, HUG, LOVE, DIE, or ERR. These curt verbs, he believes, represent the vocabulary of the American dream, the "optimistic, generous, and naive" philosophy of plenty that is often mistaken for all the philosophy that the U.S. lives...