Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with The Painted Word in 1975, Wolfe's broadside against modern art--virtually all modern art--because it existed, he said, solely to perpetuate art criticism. Without criticism, the art was nothing. Except ugly. Wolfe did have a point, but he stretched it to ludicrous proportions to prove himself correct. He crossed over the line to mockery, and the result was more Mencken (bad Mencken, that is) than Mailer (good Mailer...
...staff, also seems correct when he says, "I see less change in him than in any political figure I have ever known. He has a set of values, and everything stems from those values...
Harry Truman, he thinks, was wrong to stage the Berlin airlift. The U.S. should have sent its trucks overland and called the Soviets' bluff; Moscow would have backed down and might have been better behaved thereafter. Douglas Mac-Arthur was correct about Korea. Had the general's view prevailed, Reagan speculates, "I don't think there would ever have been a Viet Nam." And Solzhenitsyn is correct today in his dark vision of what will happen tomorrow if the West fails to pull itself together...
...couple of Reagan's more candid assistants acknowledge that some of the candidate's miscues are caused by an almost naive desire to prove that some conviction he holds dear is correct. The other day he visited the Santa Marta Hospital in a chicano area of East Los Angeles and told the institution's staff that he had asked a nun there whether the hospital gets "compensation from Medicaid or anything like that." She had answered no, he reported, and then told the group, "I appreciate your pride in that." But a puzzled senior administrator later informed...
...make sure that no one followed in Logan's faulty footsteps, McCurdy appointed twelve j.v. runners to "Logan's Legion," positioning them at various points along the race to steer the runners in the correct direction...