Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems. He has a brisk approach to subordinates that he may have inherited from his father. He often tells his staff how the patriarch would have handled a problem. Like Joseph Kennedy, the Senator rarely hands out compliments or credit but is quick to assess blame when something goes wrong. Once he angrily dressed down an aide for not informing his mother that he was going to appear on a TV interview show. After he cooled off, the aide explained in a memo that Rose had been out when the staff called and that she had been sent a videotape...
Kennedy says he has thought it all out. He has been through so much already, he feels, that he does not see how this could be worse. "Maybe I'm wrong," he says. "Maybe it will be a lot worse than I think." Friends say that Kennedy is fatalistic about his life and about the special danger that he faces in running for President. For that reason, his family and closest friends refused their counsel when he asked for advice about getting into the race. To an outsider, one of them would admit only, "It's really scary." Says Kennedy...
...argues that his actions that night do not reflect on his judgment today. Somewhat stoically, he told TIME: "People may not believe me or accept some of my answers. But the idea that the people who were there that night are holding back some secret is just all wrong. The essence of the event for me is that the girl is dead. There is nothing else...
...could exhaust superlatives on individual numbers. When Sylvia ("Kuum-ba") Williams, a lady of formidable amplitude, undulates into Kitchen Man and The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole, sex becomes an active verb. Thais Clark is an infectious comedian who can subtly saturate a blues like Muddy Water with haunting plaintiveness. By birth, Topsy Chapman was a 16th child. Here she's a No. 1 joymaker. Snake-hipped Vernel Bagneris keeps the company jumping at a blistering pace...
...then there's Brown. Don't get me wrong, I love bears. I've outgrown Teddies, but watching Yogi and Boo Boo going after "pic-a-nic baskets" in Jellystone Park is still...