Word: misguidedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the Republican Convention, fundamentalist ministers were conspicuous. There was the letter by Senator Laxalt, suggesting that God wants Americans to vote Republican and that the Christian thing to do is re-elect Ronald Reagan. The President himself suggested as much. It all amounts to saying that what is desirable...
All the misguided cynics cannot diminish the pride that we Americans have received from the Games.
Why have Americans seemed so generous toward Reagan? Pundits resort to a kind of mystical non-analysis: some unprecedented "Teflon factor," they say, has permitted him to escape public blame; no failure sticks. Walter Mondale's hope is that before Americans step into the polling booths, they will come to...
Though the appeal of the Hart pitch is understandable, it is exactly the type of misguided response Karnow says he is trying to avoid.
In a perverse way, even the courses that pander to the high school crowd that has flocked to Cambridge for the summer hold out the promise of pragmatism, only more subtly. What possible reason is there to take "our Mobile Earth," or "history of the English Language," or-get this...