Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debating whether terrorist acts are a justified, or even a rational, expression of this resentment is fruitless. The point is that the United States makes itself more vulnerable to extreme or symbolic attacks by terrorists in foreign nations depending on the degree to which citizens of that nation perceive the...
But certainly Lasch is wrong when he asserts that the realistic novel has been deprived of its usual targets: "hypocrisy, pomposity, misguided idealism, self-deception." The best novelists at work today, most notably the British, have satirized Freudian idealists and fools as ruthlessly as they attacked all the older stupidities...
With disarming intellectual and political innocence, Lasch writes on the teleogical assumption that the intellect is naturally suited for the ends to which modernist in tellectuals most often put it. He translates the misguided American trust in the innocence and perfectibility of nature into the goodness and universal applicability of...
The Crimson Forum articles of November 17, "Ted Koppel Blames the Victim," is typical of today's trendy, but misguided thought on the issue of Nicaragua. The writer takes at face value the pious assertions of the Nicaraguan foreign ministers, throws in a little international law, and comes out painting...
The I.R.A. bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton [WORLD, Oct. 22] makes me aware once again that many of our American citizens are financing this madness in spite of the efforts of the Irish and British governments to stop it. I also criticize our politicians of Irish background who...