Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Pusey and other administrators offered retorts to John Kenneth Galbraith's published attack on the Harvard governing system. Pusey said Galbraith's article was "wrong on just about everything," and especially in its suggestion that the Faculty choose Harvard deans. Pusey said that the Corporation should make administrative appointments because it was able to weigh "a wider range of relevancies...
...hand as if it were a snake. What had happened? Jean had sounded unenthused, to say the least; and he had sounded like an eight-grader! What was the matter with him? That same kind of stuff had worked so well at home; what was he doing wrong? Martin hung up the phone and crewled back to his chair...
...wrong, and Martin, always perceptive, knew it. He felt that something was missing. He kept having these funny dreams about earthworms, telephones, cells, and girls; and although the dreams were ludicrous, they kept reminding him that he had forgotten something of vast importance. Also, Martin was meeting a lot of Cliffies now, and he knew he would have to date one sooner or later. Martin felt a crisis coming...
...regret them not because I am afraid of student reactions against them or because I think they will lead to new violence and discord, but because they seem to me wrong: procedurally wrong, in conscience wrong...
...this effect of paralysis in the face of enormous wrong, this apparent lack of any means to control and deter, prolonging itself year after year, that drives men--good men--to single acts of rage and desperation; acts which bear no relation to their ordinary day-to-day conduct...