Compiled by official censors, the Index was an implementation of one part of the teaching function of the Roman Catholic church: to prevent the contamination of the faith or the corruption of morals through the reading of theologically erroneous or immoral books.
Correction: February 13 , 2000 Sunday A review of "No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith," by Janann Sherman, in The Times Book Review last Sunday included the book's erroneous attribution of a precedent to Senator Smith of Maine.
Edward L. Beach, a submariner who wrote the novel "Run Silent, Run Deep," included erroneous references from another book of his, "Submarine!," to the name and mission of a Japanese aircraft carrier with which his vessel had an encounter in June 1943.
In much of the commentary, I've encountered the erroneous assumption that the book is written for corporate power players, which it isn't, and an odd expectation it should speak for all women, which it shouldn't.
Correction: March 4 , 2001 Sunday A review on Feb. 11 about "Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America," by Lynne Luciano, included an erroneous name from the book jacket for the university where the author is a professor.
Correction: April 8 , 2001 Sunday A review on March 18 about "Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith," by Robert A. Slayton, included an erroneous reference from the book to the judicial career of Joseph Proskauer, a political adviser to Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York in the 1920's.
He sold over 100,000,000 copies of that book, Your Erroneous Zones.
His book — "Your Erroneous Zones" — ended up topping bestseller lists for 27 months.
In much of the commentary, I've encountered the erroneous assumption that the book is... should speak for all women, which it shouldn't.
As a school psychologist and student assistance coordinator in a junior-senior high school, I am consistently frustrated and often alarmed by the amount of misinformation and erroneous speculation permeating anti-bullying books, articles and programs.
