Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Every debate at Harvard must pay homage to a "politically correct" (PC) ideology. Just the expression should strike fear in the heart of free thinkers. The mere idea--even if half in jest--that there is a correct, defined political agenda that determines a person's merit is abhorrent...
Harvard's vocal left-wing publications and activist groups--notably Perspective, The Crimson, Committee on Central America (COCA), Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC) and South African Solidarity Committee (SASC)--have reached virtually identical liberal conclusions on what is "correct" and have delineated the sides of campus debate in black and white...
...side is the "politically correct:" abortion on demand, no homophobic ROTC on campus, support for HUCTW, divestment now, U.S. out of Central America now, more minority faculty now, no more final clubs now--you've heard all this a million times...
...Germanys," says a university student, Barbara, firmly. "One isn't correct. To be correct we need two different systems. So we can have the best of both...
...debt to Ulam. After suffering a heart attack in 1979, he dictated an account of the day Ulam walked into his office and said he had a way to make the bomb. Teller, though, heatedly disputes the notion that the key idea was Ulam's. "That is not correct," he says. "I do not want to say what is correct. It is a long and complicated story. Someday I will write it down...