Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marciano also blamed utility lines from the city of Cambridge for the back-up. "When the main water lines are blocked, everything goes wrong," he said...
Indeed, the only wrong note was struck in the U.S., where Robert MacNeil was hired to introduce each hour, the duty performed by Alistair Cooke on Masterpiece Theater. Only after seeing MacNeil, who fidgets through his banalities, does one realize how artful Cooke's introductions...
...luncheons. He could summon a harem of women, fly to Haiti or Honolulu or Honduras at the flash of a credit card." West's people may converse in bromides ("Let me put it this way," one observes. "It's lonely at the top"), but they get them wrong often enough to sustain suspense: "Men get drunk in high places. Sometimes they get illusions of grandeur...
...Bickel once expressed it, is that too many federal judges view themselves as holding "roving commissions as problem solvers, charged with a duty to act when majoritarian institutions do not." Given license by a vague Constitution and malleable laws, and armed with their own rigorous sense of right and wrong, judges have been roving all over the lot: into school desegregation, voting rights, sex, mental health, the environment-the list goes...
...students have no other voice; advocating the CRR's abolition hurts the students. The AD board, for example, has no student representatives. By advocating the abolition of the CRR, students are embarrassing themselves by implying that they cannot distinguish between the credible and the implausible, the right and the wrong, the innocent and the guilty, the fair and the unjust or hard fact and hearsay as others in society can. The indictment of faculty members and the senior tutor is no less incriminating...