Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor Eloise Knapp Hay of the University of California at Santa Barbara, whose book T.S. Eliot's Negative Way was published in 1982, lambasts Ozick's article in much the same fashion as Hall, calling the author's arguments "stupid," "ridiculous" and "outrageously wrong...
...read with interest Rosa Ehrenreich's recent comments that "public service is not done in a vacuum...We're saying that there are things like poverty, homelessness, racism that are wrong...
Saying that poverty, homelessness and racism are wrong is like saying that it sometimes rains in Boston. Although a scintillating observation, it is a moot point...
...took an unscientific poll at breakfast this morning. I asked my fellow breakfasters if they thought that poverty, homelessness and racism are wrong...
Unfortunately, Ehrenreich and others make the mistake of confusing political intent with political efficacy. The point is that we need to change attitudes and make people realize that poverty is wrong. We need to get them to do something about...