Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, I knew that a friend's brother had gotten in. However, after the decisions are made many changes can be made. They can take people off and put people on the same day they send the letters out. If I had told my friend I could have been wrong, and then I also would have been fired...
Obviously, he was wrong. Anderson was accepted and, of course, came. The one culture shock the Georgia resident recalls experiencing during Freshman Week was parties. "I'd never seen so many people drink so much beer in my life," says Anderson, who lived in Grays freshman year. "I've never seen that much consumption...
...wrong," said Fernando R. Laguarda '88. "We deserve to be fed after four years of loyalty and good behavior. They're under the impression that the seniors won't take advantage...
ALTHOUGH he has unlocked many of the inner workings of urban culture, Wolfe has drawn criticism for his treatment of minorities. Wolfe writes with palpable terror as his hero and mistress take a wrong turn and are forced to drive through a minority neighborhood. Some would call this telling it like it is, but the writer Howard Fast, for one, felt obliged to write to The New York Times to tell of his car breaking down in the South Bronx--and the helpful assistance he received from local residents...
...aggressive, and you've got to be a little crazy," says Roger Mullen, 17, of Ventura, Calif. Law officers get heated up over potential noise, traffic, safety and property violations. Explains Mark Wynn, 12, who skates in Atlanta: "Cops always think you're tearing up places, and they're wrong . . . well, sorta." Police policy about skaters seems to have only one common denominator: chase 'em. In Chicago, authorities tell skaters to get off the sidewalk, while others tell them to get out of traffic...