Word: sic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When James Watt was signed on as Interior Secretary, he told the President exactly what policies he wanted to pursue. Federal lands must be opened for development of energy and mineral resources, said Watt, pledging to undo "50 years or so of bad Government." Said a delighted Reagan: "Sic 'em." And Watt did, promptly becoming the most ideologically controversial member of the Cabinet. As he puts it: "I was brought in to yell down a new chain of command on environmental issues. I yelled, and to my surprise, I was obeyed." He proposed offering for lease 1 billion...
...Weathermen went underground in 1970 to start a terror campaign. In March of that year three members died in the explosion of a town house in New York City's Greenwich Village; Katherine Boudin and Cathlyn Wilkerson escaped. The Weather Underground proceeded to bomb "symbols of Amerikan [sic] injustice," including the U.S. Capitol in 1971, before fading...
...anyone who has read it knows, People is about people--mostly celebrities of the rank a half-step ahead of Jaye P. Morgan (sic.) and a step behind Burt Reynolds. But People is also about jes' folks, once-ordinary citizens, who, through either outrageous good or ill fortune, have come to claim their 15 minutes in the sun. People looks at its flock with an endearing innocence; it sees only good and bad, with little in between. The crucial point about People is that it sees its once-ordinary folks as good, and this is the quality the 'Poon captures...
...year later," Brinnin writes, "I heard what I wanted to hear. 'Your book,' she wrote, 'was a great and successful undertaking.' That she then thought I was a Mr. Binner, that the book had got (sic) confused in her mind with the whisky called Four Roses, that she addressed her letter to a street on which I had never lived, were, as I squinted at that spidery scrawl, matters of no consequence." The study revolves around Stein and Brinnin; Toklas has become the foil...