Word: wrongheadedness
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Men have been opposed for high office for many reasons, but it remained for the liberal New Republic magazine last week to find one of the most tortuous (and wrongheaded) of all. In arguing against the confirmation of John A. McCone, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, as director...
For a while, nothing happened; a Knights of Columbus contingent even grinned when a few students quavered out God Save the Queen as they passed. Then, toward the parade's end, a snowball hit a motorcycle cop who had been holding back crowds by gunning his tricycle back and...
The cool beauty and grandeur of your June 4 Southern scenes and the captions describing what happened there should help outsiders see why we Southerners so easily let sentiment cloud our wrongheaded race thinking. The rightheaded thinking of my alma mater (Spring Hill College-noted in your Education section) is...
The clash of strong cultures is likely to be a god-eat-god affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his...
Like many of her sisters in what she bitterly refers to as the Second Sex, France's Simone de Beauvoir would rather talk than eat. Since she is the grande dame of French existentialism and all-round good friend of Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without...