Word: wrongful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expert, August Mayer, who identified it as a genuine Giorgione. The reddish tints, a peculiar softness, the rendering of the grass and small figures in the middle ground, Mayer declared, were all typical of the master's hand. With that, Samuel H. Kress bought the painting. Was Berenson wrong? Perhaps. In later years, even he grudgingly admitted that the painting had been done "in part" by Giorgione. But he refused to yield on his main point that "it was probably finished by Titian...
...trouble is that most of what needs to get done in the U.S. is pretty boring stuff-things like modernizing taxes, zoning, building codes and local governments. Yet neglect of such matters is what promotes the wrong kind of change. Most of the historians' turning-point years involve wars and revolutions, not peaceful change. Clearly, 1968 is already a year for the history books; if it becomes a really major entry, the reason will be that Americans failed to solve too many of the minor problems that eventually cause major explosions. In that sense, today's blaring headlines...
...customary state of confusion over tactics. Some of its leaders want a massive new confrontation with the university as classes open, on the theory that administrators will react harshly, thus generating sympathy for the militants. Others have proposed more subtie harassments, such as gumming up registration by filing wrong information on computer cards. In any case, the administration is preparing for the worst. Last week workmen were installing thick, rockproof Plexiglas windows in Kirk's Low Library office...
Glass, Right or Wrong. For the most part, The Case Against Congress reports conflict-of-interest cases, many of them unblushingly straightforward. Congressman Sam Gibbons, a Democrat from Florida, sponsored a special bill for construction of a veterans' hospital on land to be purchased from a corporation represented by his own law firm. Mississippi Senator James Eastland, a millionaire cotton farmer, fights strenuously for higher price supports for cotton. Though he vociferously opposes "big Government spending," Eastland received $129,997 last year in farm subsidies. Representative Arch Moore Jr., a Republican from West Virginia, belongs to a law firm...
...read the fortunetelling card her husband got from a penny weighing machine. 'You are a leader she read, 'with a magnetic personality and strong character-intelligent, witty and attractive to the opposite sex.' Then she turned the card over and added, 'It has your weight wrong...