Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking finding is that most Americans regard the violation of traditional morality as a lesser wrong than the attempt to disguise such violation with hypocrisy. The survey confirmed this indictment by posing situations in which respondents had to pass comparative judgment on various types of miscreants, "respectable" and otherwise. Common criminals, militants and the sexually promiscuous almost always came out better across the entire Harris sample than the prototypical Establishment figure who violates a trust. Examples...
...Dame des Doms, contains within its stylized forms both the violence of the struggle and the authority of an abstraction. Its companion piece, representing Samson pulling down the temple on his head as six Philistine heads loom above, demonstrates Auden's observation that the old masters were never wrong about suffering: "How well they understood /. . . how it takes place/ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along." The small figure of St. Peter from the Third Abbey Church at Cluny is stylistically as spare as anything Matisse ever contrived, humanistically as moving...
Berg said "the basic premise that it's wrong to fight against the Corporation is in itself a false premise." He explained that he viewed "everybody involved in the University Hall seizure as having interests opposed to the Corporation...
...that perhaps he was even representative of the old liberal era that began with the New Deal. Motivated by unquestioned humanitarian ideals, many such men nevertheless grew so accustomed over 30 years to power and influence-and the material goods both brought-that they believed they could do no wrong. Lyndon Johnson's self-righteous dismissal of his critics was not so very different from Abe Fortas' arrogant assumption that he had done nothing wrong in dealing with a man like Wolfson. "Fortas was the guy," one Johnson intimate remembered, "who was most responsible for Johnson...
...listening," Nelson Rockefeller told his hosts. "What's wrong with listening? This is the first time a North American has ever come listening." The heads of state of the seven Central American countries, whom the New York Governor visited last week on the first leg of a 23-nation, four-stage mission for President Nixon, had plenty to tell...