Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST SPRING, activists virulently protested Harvard's holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. The protesters insisted that it was wrong for Harvard to lend support to a far-away regime that mandated the legal separation of its Black citizens from its white ones...
THERE'S NOTHING wrong with authors such as Jackie Collins and Judith Krantz. Trashy books, after all, play an important role in this world. Without them, standing on supermarket checkout lines would be even more boring. And what would summer on the beach be without that season's potboiling sensation...
...monster? Alex Forrest, creature of the id. And who are the heroes? An American family, right or wrong, weak or strong, Dan or Beth. And how does a film with no surefire stars, no space-age special effects, no ringing affirmation of the human spirit, no discernible pretensions toward art, no unanimous blessing from the critics -- and not a single teenager among its cast of characters -- luck into the national bloodstream? By tapping the current mood of sexual malaise with a cautionary -- indeed, reactionary -- tale about an errant husband, a faithful wife and a career woman unlucky in love...
...sound is unmistakable? Push open some stranger's door to confront some stranger's scream? Much courage is required for that. Much recklessness as well. The helplessness you feel in such situations is dizzying; and even when you act, someone in power can let you down. You could be wrong. Foolish. You could be sued...
...dark psychological thickets and sudden clearings of enlightenment, even as they roar with laughter. Its basic insight, plainly influenced by the revisionist scholarship of Bruno Bettelheim, is that at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents and children. Almost everything that goes wrong -- which is to say, almost everything that can -- arises from a failure of parental or filial duty, despite the best intentions...