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That's Fit to Print"
"All the News

On June 21, 1950, the front page slogan appeared like this. By the time the error was noticed, it was too late to correct it that day. But it was corrected, in a manner of speaking, the next day and every day thereafter.

Even Homer nods. Some mistakes are careless oversights while others are genuine howlers. This irresistible collection of notable errors from the pages of The New York Times includes everything from gross historical inaccuracies, glaring misidentifications, and disastrous recipes to a wide range of inexplicable, unsupportable boners.Kill Duck Before Serving is a quirky selection of all the corrections fit to print by one of our most esteemed newspapers.

March 11, 1975
In yesterday's issue, The New York Times did not report on riots in Milan and the subsequent murder of the lay religious reformer Erlembald. These events took place in 1075, the year given in the dateline under the nameplate on Page 1. The Times regrets both incidents.

April 7, 1995
Because of a transcription error, an article about Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato's remarks about Judge Lance A. Ito misquoted the Senator at one point. In his conversation with the radio host Don Imus, he said: "I mean, this is a disgrace. Judge Ito will be well known." He did not say, "Judge Ito with the wet nose."

October 22, 2000
An article about Ivana Trump and her spending habits misstated the number of bras she buys. It is two dozen black, two dozen beige and two dozen white, not two thousand of each.

July 14, 1985
A report misidentified the document on which John Hancock put his famous prominent signature. It was the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
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Some gems, but neither humorous nor useful
There are two ways in which a book such as "Kill Duck Before Serving" can succeed: as a comedy or as a warning. "Kill Duck Before Serving" does neither.

Yes, there are some funny errors in this book (most of which are mentioned in one of the editorial reviews published on this page), but most of the errors are as boring as any corrections page. Consider this one from page 90: "Page 52 of some copies on Saturday was blank." Is that something most people are interested in? Is that funny? It didn't seem so to me.

The book also fails as an exercise in journalistic transparency. No information is given as to why these specific mistakes were chosen to appear in the book. There's no commentary explaining why the errors happened in the first place, or discussion of how errors (such as the erroneous report that Bill Clinton tied up an airport to get his hair cut - I'm sure most Americans still believe this to be the gospel truth) can cause serious damage to an individual's or a corporation's image.

I did enjoy Tom Bloom's drawings, which livened up some of the duller corrections.

I don't particularly recommend this book.

Mediocre bathroom book
Occasionally humorous, often obtuse, frequently pointless, this correction collection is only good for one thing I can think of:To briefly take one's mind off one's business while in the necessary room.It's certainly not worth the $13.95 cover price, but for this one purposes it passes the time with an occasional chuckle.Odd premise for a book.

Hubris leads to continued Red Faces @ Grand Old Lady
"Red Faces at The New York Times" is "[a] collection of the newspaper's most interesting, embarrassing[,] and off-beat corrections".
Some would say that this NYT publication is an amazing display of collective hubris, and they would be right. It is an amazing example of dangling pr[o]positions, which is something of which they would not be put.
Others would be amazed at the examples of NYT writers, and copyeditors, fact checkers, editors, et al, failing to get it correct in repeated tries, e.g. referring to Dickens' Xmas bird as a goose instead of a turkey. Which establishes beyond a doubt that, at Christmas, not all of the NYT turkeys are on the table. And these other observers would be most correct.
Which leads to this reviewer's glee at finding two uncorrected faux pas on the same page of this delightful source for Letterman's 10 Most lists.I refer to page 21, where in two successive paragraphs, Fermat's conjecture is displayed incorrectly.
Fermat's conjecture, not a theorem, concerned an equation: "x[superscript]n + y[superscript]n = z[superscript]n" which Fermat suggest would have no solution where x, y, and z are positive whole numbers and [superscript]n is a whole number [power] more than 2.Unfortunately, in this tome of contrition, the equation is given as "xn +yn = zn" [no superscript "n"] which of course has an unlimited number of solutions.

This book was also compiled prior to the wholesale invention and plagarism embroglio which terminated two arrogant editors.

Non tu scis, quom et alto puteo sursum ad summum escenderis, maximum periclum inde esse ab summo ne rursum cadas. [Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 1150-1151]

Ho-hum
Wish I'd read the customer reviews before I bought it. A bit of humor, but mostly tedious. Disappointing.

Amusing?Sometimes.Hilarious?Not Really.
Be sure you buy this book with the right expectations.It's not a collection of uniformly hilarious bungles like the "Anguished English" series.As an earlier reviewer noted, there are a few genuinely funny bloopers mixed with many, many dry errors of fact, number, or spelling.There's an irritating undertone of "Look how we at the great New York Times can laugh at ourselves" here, and it doen't make for entertaining reading. ... Read more

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Title: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Letter to D'Alembert and Writings for the Theater.(The Collected Writings of Rousseau, vol. 10)(Book review)
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Title: Love and Friendship.
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Title: Benardete, Seth. Plato's Symposium.(Book Review)
Author: Laurence Lampert
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This digital document is an article from American Decades: Primary Sources, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 599 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues. Entries representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author and further resources. American Decades Primary Sources includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are first hand accounts that include oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoonsand recipes. ... Read more

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Title: The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale). (book review)
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Maybe better than Bloom
I admit to trying to provoke with my title. I regard The Closing of the American Mind as a useful book badly flawed by the rhetorical excesses of Bloom. Bloom wildly overstated much of his case.
In that sense, this fine collection by Robert I. Stone might be the better book in that it is a more sober approach to many of the issues. All of the high seriousness, much of the vitriol with less than half of the nonsense.
Published in 1989, Stone brought together about 50 of the 300 reviews and essays written about CAM by then. He shortened almost all of them somewhat to focus on what he thinks are the main issues that the book raises. He added sections from an interview of Bloom that speak to some of the sections and also added about 10 essays written for this book. Finally, he provides complete citations for hundreds of essays thus allowing for more research by anyone interested.
The writers cover the whole political, cultural and philosphical spectrum.
There are many essays by different Straussians that display the variety of reaction to CAM from his fellow Straussians. There are essays of praise by fellow Straussians like Werner Dannhauser, Walter Nicgorski, and Harvey Mansfield Jr. Less favorable essays were written by George Anastaplo and Harry Jaffa. Also weighing in are such notables as Robert Paul Wolff, Frank Zappa, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Louis Menand, Tom Hayden, Richard Rorty, and Martha Nussbaum. Some of these are wonderful (Wolff's essay is couched as a review of Bloom's book as really being a novel by Saul Bellow about a pedantic old professor called Bloom at the University of Chicago- all this ten years before Ravelstein was published! Could this be the genesis of Bellow's novel?) The essay by William Marty is a wonderful corrective to Bloom's abuse of American history coming from a conservative and religious perspective. Fans of the work of Donald Lutz will find Marty's arguments familiar and persuasive. Some of the essays are not as good. I admire Martha Nussbaum as much as any living philosopher. But her Undemocratic Vistas comes across as a little pedantic and somewhat beside the point. But not completely. I get the feeling that she did not put in much time on this essay. If she had developed the central idea, which is the ridiculousness of Bloom's conceit that "the ancients" all agreed on certain principles, it would have been much more effective against Bloom.
Overall, this is a very useful supplement to Bloom's book. At these prices, I highly recommend it. Or check out from your local library. I really do think it will enrich your reading of CAM.
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Though critical opinion of the literary merit of Edgar Allan Poe has varied widely since his death in 1849, the Tales have always remained very popular. Poe is seen as a master storyteller who was a precursor of much of today's science fiction and horror.

The title, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tales of Poe, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tales of Poe through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Edgar Allan Poe, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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Title: The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi,1774-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale), 1817-1821, vol. 6.(Book Review)
Author: Allan Ingram
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