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Word: misguidedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Partly, too, Superman evolved in response to changes in American society, starting with the cataclysm of World War II. In one misguided early effort, his creators had him fly to Berchtesgaden and Moscow and haul both Hitler and Stalin before a League of Nations tribunal in Geneva. Believers in verisimilitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

In the Globe article, Ms. Schkolnick states that she is out to change Harvard traditions left over from the "bad old days." What she and Mr. Dershowitz do not realize is that they themselves personify a "bad old" tradition which predates Harvard by several millenia: the misguided zealot. Waving the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swat Schkolnick's Suit | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

IN a sense, the debate over whether quotas exist limiting Asian-American enrollment at leading universities nationwide has been misguided. While no one suggests that there is no anti-Asian discrimination, the idea of admissions offices at America's top colleges posting specific limits on the number of minorities they...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Asian-American Admissions: | 2/11/1988 | See Source »

Rather's aggressive interrogation of Bush was an ambush that backfired. But the Bush people had planned a sally of their own: the Vice President was eager to launch a crowd-pleasing counterattack on live television. Within days, however, there were signs that Bush's strategy might also boomerang. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bushwhacked! | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Misguided, because Moses bases his argument upon a bizarre view of the origins and role of the State of Israel. Europeans with guilty consciences did not "colonize Jews on a strip of desert," nor were Jews colonized in any way, shape, or form. Zionist immigration was a protracted, eclectic, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Objecting to 'A Solution for Israel' | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

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