Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexuals? What'if the doctor himself is a homosexual (take a TIME-Harris Poll on that one)? I mean to say the questions were so worded, the comparisons so ridiculous, that it is no wonder intelligent people are questioning the polls-and no wonder they've proved wrong time and time again...
...Temple Fielding is a symbol of everything wrong with our society-superficial, antiseptic and self-righteous. In an increasingly complex and sensitive world, Fielding sends forth his legions of bores, who would rather pinch and proposition-than listen and understand...
...only thing that all Irishmen agree about is that you're wrong. In fact, even that statement would probably fetch you a fight in any decent Dublin pub. So before a word is said about the Irish character, let it be stated that very few Irishmen have it. The Irish character, if the truth be told, is a silly joke played on the English, and is only kept around for the sake of the tourists...
...vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience"; it is "the constant search for good and better policies. When old policies are shown to be wrong, patriotism generates efforts to implement new ones...
Bless Jane Jacobs. Lively, lucid, blunt, original, she triumphs by being mostly wrong. Her first book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), took thousands of great-American-city dwellers by storm. Written in the heyday of urban renewal, it briskly pointed out that most big, supposedly progressive rebuilding projects were casting a "great blight of dullness" on the already tormented city dweller. In her ten years as an editor of Architectural Forum, she had seen plenty of such projects. The zesty future, she argued, could be found instead by returning to the diversity of the past...