Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deals with all of life and not theexclusive domain of conventions and acceptedvalues of the majority," Bakanowsky saidyesterday. "We're going in the wrong direction.The East bloc is going towards more freedom, andwe're going in the opposite direction. Isn't itironic...
...cynical "drop-out" of the Social Studies and History and Literature Departments, I continue to wonder why Harvard forced me to choose a concentration as a naive, inexperienced frosh. Since my initial decision two years ago, I have changed majors three times and still receive the wrong concentration packets at registration...
...newest buildings in Wu's village is a saying widely heard during the Cultural Revolution two decades ago: PREPARE FOR WAR, PREPARE FOR NATURAL DISASTERS, SERVE THE PEOPLE. Wu makes no apologies. "Of course I know the slogan's origins," he says. "But there is nothing wrong with those words. We should use more of what Mao taught. His themes were self- reliance and sacrifice. I say to our leaders, more of that and less riding around in fancy cars...
...back to China, a shift that will once again confirm the Middle Kingdom as the center of the world. All these people know that the man is right because they know that the logic behind marrying dead people, to ensure them a peaceful afterlife, is dead wrong. The real if equally fanciful reason is that the unmarried dead are feared capable of becoming angry spirits who may disturb their living relatives. "Face it," says the stiff-burner, gesturing to the coffins now set in a common grave. "This thing we call a wedding is something we are doing...
...crackdown by causing the leaders to lose face when Gorbachev visited. Problem is, the students weren't up on their Mao." Had they been, they might have come upon a 1927 essay in which the future Chairman identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded . . . To put it bluntly, it is ((sometimes)) necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror...