Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...correct a few simple facts...
Speaking at a Harvard Law School Forum last night, former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III defended federal restrictions on the content of Planned Parenthood consultations while warning of the danger that "politically correct" speech codes pose to First Amendment rights...
...differences emerge quickly. Isabelle, who is pursuing a degree in psychology, tends to take the lead. Impulsive and peremptory, she is quick to cut Paul off and correct him when she believes he has misspoken. Whether listening or speaking, she conveys nervous energy, often jiggling one leg or the other. "I fly off the handle," she admits, "but Paul is strong too." Paul, who has completed a degree in molecular genetics, is as soft- mannered, courteous and obliging as Isabelle is wired and impatient. "People who see me stimulated on ice are disappointed when they see me in reality...
Peninsula may be ideologically correct; but by rejecting that code, by pursuing sensation rather than sense, their staffers have proven themselves to be no better--indeed, no different--than the '60s leftists that once ravaged this great University. Eric Reis '92 Editor emeritus,The Harvard Salient
These are oversimplifications, but facts are facts: America's national savings rate declined by 58 percent during the 80s. And anyway, Hollywood loves oversimplifications. So it's no surprise that an avalanche of cinematically correct movies rumbled out of La-La Land in 1991, dedicated to the proposition that Homo Eightitatus was an obnoxious, Mammon-worshipping egotist. In Regarding Henry, it took a bullet in the head to turn the 80s lawyer into a compassionate human being. In The Doctor, it took a bout with cancer to cure the 80s doctor of his own chronic self-absorption. In Hook...