Word: wrongheadedness
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The Hartman case probably shows the Design School at its wrongheaded worst. It is inherently unjust to have one party to a dispute select the committee to adjudicate that dispute; but beyond this, the GSD administration--charged with choosing Hartman's review committee--now concedes to breaking the ground rules...
At first glance, the most distressing response has been the enshrinement of Calley as a hero: the "Free Calley" rallies, buttons, and bumperstickers, the pro-Calley songs, the flimsy Calley magazines. But the response of most liberal media has been at least as wrongheaded: journals such as Time (always the...
Indeed, there are some who worry whether jazz can (or should) be taught at all. "If you have to ask what jazz is," Louis Armstrong once observed, "you ain't got it." His view is both right on and slightly wrongheaded. Schooling alone can no more produce a creative...
Despite the obvious political overtones of his letter, Rabbi Levin was undoubtedly correct that terror tactics against Soviet diplomats harm the cause of Jews in Russia. Yet no matter how wrongheaded the acts of the Jewish Defense League in the U.S. have been, one of the organization's basic...
With all their faults, wrote French Poet Charles Peguy, God loves the French best. It would be hard to prove Peguy wrong. Still, one wonders whether even the deity can understand his favorites. Witness the recent miscalculation of their mood by Charles de Gaulle, who presumed himself to be modern...