Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also faculty and officers, while many graduate students were both alumni and students. Brown sees two reasons for these mistakes. First, some older alumni like their low Coop Card numbers, just as some people get a kick out of low license-plate numbers. These alumni purposely register in the wrong categories in order to keep their numbers...
...military-industrial complex and admit that "perhaps no one is in charge." And in the first lecture he commented ominously, "Only those who know the Federal Government very well indeed know how disinclined it is to think in the largest terms about the nation's future." Right or wrong, the theory is an ingenious one, and like much of Gardner's writing it rings with a convincing air of sophistication...
...circularity of Gardner's thinking. The lectures diagnosed a crisis in morale running all through Unites States society, but offered only rhetorical affirmations as a cure--"we can build a society to man's measure--if we have the will." Gardner acknowledged that "there are things gravely wrong with our society as a problem-solving mechanism," but, except for a slight shift from federal to local government, seemed always to be urging only more and better of the same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize its values, to clarify choices, to help sift priorities, and most...
...they are asked to decide whether his mental state during the crime made him fit the legal definition of a word which few psychiatrists use: insanity. Under the 126-year-old M'Naghten rule, insanity is not knowing what one is doing, or not knowing that it is wrong. However, many people who can tell right from wrong are nonetheless patients in mental hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham rule.* If a man is deemed insane under any legal definition, he is not responsible for his criminal act at the time he committed...
...make of earth. Old-fashioned militant atheism may be on the wane, but to some appalled and devout Christians, unbelief seems ascendant, and Antichrist just around the corner. The trouble with the image, according to an international symposium on unbelief last week, is that it is all wrong. "The modern world," declared University of California Sociologist Robert N. Bellah without irony, "is as alive with religious possibility as any epoch in human history...