Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important role in the slaughter by the accounts of a number of his men, though exactly what orders he issued is disputed (see The Legal Dilemmas, page 32). At the same time, the Army has ordered a top-level probe of its own initial investigation, which found nothing amiss...
...BOOKS about youth culture (and a host of other things, for that matter, like polities and social reality) can often be fairly judged by the crates they keep. When Stanley Kauffman seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards or who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know...
...When he came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said anything amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts; but there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less." Casca in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
...BOOKS about youth culture (and a host of other things, for that matter, like politics and social reality) can often be fairly judged by the critics they keep. When Stanley Kauffmann seizes on The Graduate as one of the most significant films ever made, you know something is amiss. Similarly when the press does chorus kicks for James Simon Kunen. Or when Pauline Kael hails Wild in the Streets. Scorecards of who likes what are less important when dealing with art works with little contemporary social content. Time thinks Persona is a masterpiece, but doesn't know...
...affair is something of an embarrassment to Governor Don Samuelson, who was elected on a promise to "run the state like a business." What is particularly embarrassing is the fact that only after seven years and six separate audits did anyone notice anything amiss. "It was done very cleverly," said State Highway Engineer Ellis Mathes. "On the surface, the vouchers and everything looked very normal." Attorney General Robert Robson said that Turner had invented his own company name (The B.G.O. Investment Co.) and systematically diverted highway funds by means of 40 separate warrants ranging from about...