Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accounting firm. Says James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner: "I'm impressed by the number of people of my generation who are calling for values again. Still, there's a definite problem. Many of the young people who come in to work for us don't know right from wrong." Perhaps the best way to learn is by observing all the pinstripe perpetrators marching across the front pages...
...Tucker: The Man and His Dream. The roguish, can-do smile looks welded on. No boardroom backstabbing, no political malfeasance can wipe that salesman's grin off his face. It is the smile of a cockeyed optimist whose tragic flaw is that he refuses to believe anything can go wrong. And it is attached to a mind racing with ideas and a mouth that motors even faster. Bridges' Preston Tucker is a man in perpetual motion -- gesticulating, punching walls and embracing people, scampering down his assembly line in pursuit of the perfect car. Like many a Capra hero...
Ellwood, who argues articulately and coherently for revamping the current American approaches to poverty, accepts the standard axiom of welfare--that everybody hates it--and he goes on to explain his reasons why. Welfare, as Ellwood reasons it, is the wrong set of remedies to a misidentified set of problems. It fails to address the causes of poverty, and it penalizes those poor Americans who come closest to embracing traditional values of work and value...
Sherri worries about what is ahead for Bianca. "Young men today have garbage on their minds." She says. "If they take you to Burger King, they think they can sleep with you. I tell Bianca, 'Don't wrestle with these little boys. They want to touch you in the wrong areas. You don't want them up close, period...
...endure in the American imagination. But they have a dark side too. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's journey in the Delectable Land is also a drama of alcoholism, child abuse, young runaways, social breakdown, violence, hypocrisy, racism and a child's struggle to understand right and wrong in a society that has lost its bearings. Huckleberry Finn is still the best book about American childhood, as contemporary as a milk carton bearing the photograph of a missing child...