Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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If repressed memories pop up years later, brain specialists say, they must be imperfect-and highly vulnerable to outside influence and revision. Elizabeth Loftus, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, has shown just how easy it is to create a false memory. In a study to be...
Student-written theater has all the advantages and disadvantages of unbridled freedom. Unfettered by endless revision and polishing, or years of play-writing experience and performance before live audiences, new student-written plays are often messy, but sometimes transcendent in their rawness. Nobody's You, a new play by Margaret...
Most houses and commercial structures that went up after 1980, when Japan's building code had its last major revision, are still standing. But more than 80,000 older buildings suffered serious damage. The government has promised tougher standards for new buildings, but the immediate challenge is how to improve...
"We would have a problem set and then a revision," Greene says. "I think it was an effective system because it makes students go over what they've learned."
Finally, I'd like to make a plug for a rather unusual recording of the Sibelius concerto on the Swedish label Bis by Leonidas Kavakos, Osmo Vinski, and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra. This recording includes both the early 1903-04 version of the work, retracted by the composer, as well...