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Word: wrongful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived. The newest analysis of the current Harvard education is well worth the long wait. It represents in one neat package both the sentiments of a sizeable sampling of undergraduates and the synthesizing and creative thinking of an alert and acute committee which wanted to find out what was wrong or right with this education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poskanzer Report: I | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...regard for values, no friend in the sky," accurately described the consequences which the ascendance of science and the decline of philosophy had had in the world. More & more people, said Stace, have come to believe that morality is merely relative, with one man's view of right & wrong considered as valid as another's. The consequent lack of agreement on moral standards has created impossible conditions for society. Stace's own, wooly-minded attempt at a solution: a new kind of morality found in the "psychological laws" of human behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is Man?: MORALS | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown a loss, and discouraged the producer. But they were never really sold, or they were sold to the wrong audience . . . Actually this lost audience has to do the work to find the films it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lost Audience | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

When he heard about it on the radio in Leavenworth, Lloyd scrawled in self-pity: "I have no more mother and brothers for them to murder." He was wrong: brother Doc got a bullet in the head four years later trying to crash out of Alcatraz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Last of the Barkers | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...nice fat slice of liveliness-one that recalls the era and atmosphere of The Front Page. It is paced for excitement and punctuated with humor, and it offers a small army of well-etched and well-acted minor characters. Like a certain style of pianist, Kingsley keeps hitting wrong notes and is much too fond of pedal; but he bangs out a spirited tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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