Word: wickeder
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One failed program in particular reveals how hypocritical liberals are in castigating Murray and Herrnstein. Murray and Herrnstein are wicked men, we are told, because they dare to look at people in terms of groups. But liberals, at least since Marx, have not only viewed people in terms of groups...
It is a common fallacy to assume that musical comedies are simply plays in which, for some unaccountable reason, some of the words are sung instead of spoken. But to judge any serious music-theater work as if it aspired to be Hamlet or Death of a Salesman is wrong...
Buried within Gail Godwin's ninth novel, The Good Husband (Ballantine; 468 pages; $22.95), is a wry and potentially wicked marital and academic farce. Imagine two imperious egotists -- one, Magda Danvers, a scholar of "visionary" literature, and the other, Hugo Henry, a successful novelist -- cooped up together at a small...
"There are rules for driving the autos," said Thomas, who likened her own demeanor during her presentation to that of "The Wicked Witch of the West."
The more straightforward stories here are even better than the ones with unreliable, usually psychotic narrators. The longer stories in this volume, especially "We Get Along" and the title story, are sensitive and wicked observations of family life (and death). "Jamboree" is an absolute beauty. The story's young narrator...