Word: misguidedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Keneally seldom discusses slavery, yet his book describes bondage. Confederates is about a war's ability to enslave, about bondage to a misguided cause which has long outlived the Confederate States of America.
Gays are oppressed. The early life of every gay is filled with taunts of "fag" and "queer." These teach him to hate what he is. They make admission of his homosexuality to himself a crushing blow. The gay with enough courage to step out of his closet is also oppressed...
Finally, registration represents a transparent attempt to match Russian aggression with American preparedness. It was a meaningless gesture when Carter proposed it after the invasion of Afghanistan, and it remains an embarrassing--if largely forgotten--example of our misguided attempt to stave off the ill-defined communist threat.
Disparaging every attempt in the last fifty years to write a serious novel, a novel of ideas, the attacks come strong and steady. Some are self-serving, such as Gore Vidal's assertion that to rejuvenate fiction a writer must be witty and satiric. Others are malevolent such as Alfred...
We consider these activities and the policies they imply to be dangerously misguided. Current policy, as we interpret it, is based on inaccurate intelligence, and on the suppression within various bureaucracies of verified contradicting information.