Word: incorrection
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Just as Manchester's distaste for Dallas distorted his perspective, other personal judgments intrude too often into the story. The Death of a President deserved better editing than it got. By simply eliminating those numerous single sentences of gratuitous, overly emotional, often incorrect comments, the manuscript would have lost fifty or so tedious and maddening pages...
Take the recent blast from Politburo Member Le Due Tho, writing in the party paper Nhan Dan. "Bad habits such as bureaucracy, commandism and violation of mass rights still exist to a somewhat serious degree," he complained. Among the bad habits were "cases of dubious financial situations, corruption, abuses, incorrect borrowing and unrestricted eating and drinking." By commandism, Le Due Tho meant orders heedless of local needs and wishes, and simple snobbery: "A number of leaders in factories and at construction sites do not associate with workers and labor cells...
RENAULT: Leaking brake hoses in 125 '66 Gordinis. Said Jean Ordner, executive vice president and general manager for Renault in the U.S.: "Today's report is totally incorrect. The recall was merely a quality improvement, and no accident or risk of accident was involved...
...speaker cited three minor curriculum reforms in the last ten years and said that none of them had worked out as originally intended because they were based on incorrect premises or because they were not properly implemented...
...Chester is simply incorrect when he says that "each member has 'blackball' power over any candidate." No one does. I have seen both faculty and administration members outvoted by the student electors; one man, one vote. On the other hand, it was true, at least when I was in the Society, that "faculty recommendations carry strong weight" (though it requires contemplation to understand how a weight can be strong rather than heavy). Does Mr. Chester want the Society to reply soley on the grades faculty members give, and not on their more finely articulated comments...