Word: wrongheadedness
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Well of Feeling. On political issues he is the essence of what Britons call bloody-mindedness-the trait of holding to one's own convictions, no matter how wrongheaded they may seem to others. He is the delight of right-wing Tories in money matters, demanding the abolition of...
Make no mistake: Madden's performance is engrossing throughout, wrongheaded though it is at times. Still, the evidence is clear that he has the technique to do just about anything he's told to do. Shakespeare needed Richard as preparation for Hamlet; reversing the process, Madden brought to Richard the...
That was 14 years ago, and Senator Joe McCarthy has been dead for eleven of them. Lawyer Roy Cohn, now 41 and more a New York business entrepreneur than an attorney, still has some sharp questions and deft answers. In McCarthy, a loyal but stubbornly wrongheaded book, the Senator'...
Today there are some American planners, in the universities as well as Washington, who still see Vietnam as the ultimate test of their doctrine. I have in mind those gifted but in my view, wrongheaded men who have given a new life to the missionary thrust in American foreign relations...
"Get out of Viet Nam!" they cry, ignoring the how and when. No matter that power and politics are vital necessities in a troubled world. As they see it, the U.S. is evil if it uses violence-even to combat violence. Dropouts from the body politic-to say nothing of...