Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What astonishes me about the decision by the current Expos director to abolish the fiction-writing option is its wrong-headedness in going after the song-birds with a shotgun. I don't refer to the teachers, but to those students how come to the college with an ability to write and also a need--under proven, rigorous supervision--to try their voices at something other than "the expository essay...
When Vastola decided to attend Harvard, which is five hours driving time from New York, the capital of American fencing, his coach and other acquaintances warned him he might well be sentencing himself to fencing obscurity. Gene Vastola is a fighter. Gene Vastola has proved them wrong...
...world in which the legitimate aspirations of nations and individuals have a greater chance of fulfillment." In such cases-and he included Iran-there was no cause for U.S. intervention. Said he: "Those who argue that the United States could or should intervene directly to thwart these events are wrong about the realities of Iran...
When Brooks arrives in Phoenix to begin his film, everything goes wrong. He follows Mrs. Yeager to her gynecologist, only to learn that the doctor (Johnny Haymer) has already enjoyed TV stardom in a 60 Minutes expose of "baby slave auctions." Yeager himself proves to be the most colorless veterinarian ever recorded on film. Local eyewitness-news teams descend on the Yeagers, transforming a TV stunt into a media circus. Finally, an exasperated studio chief (played as a disembodied speaker-phone voice by real-life Studio Executive Jennings Lang) clamps down on the project. He sternly reminds Brooks that reality...
...Vasectomy," Crews humorously plays with a castration fear. "Suppose," asks his doctor, trying to dissuade him from the operation, "the woman you wanted to marry wanted children of her own and you couldn't give them to her?" "Then obviously," replies Crews, "she'd be the wrong woman for me to marry...