Word: wrongheadedness
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His countrymen, many of whom thought him wrongheaded and reckless as a politician, honored Schumacher as a man. A spokesman for his bitter political foe, the right-wing Free Democratic Party, said of him: "Great opponents are blessings of fate, even if they work fiercely against us and are a...
Like a lot of other Americans looking back on a decade of U.S. frustrations and failures in Asia, the author of this book has been asking himself what went wrong. His answer: not just the blunders of a little clique in the State Department, though they proved to be tragic...
In China, the Boxers rebelled. Progressive Chinese and all Westerners regarded this anti-foreign movement as utterly wrongheaded. The Boxers were swept aside but by 1950 the Western world, appalled at a Communist China, would gladly have settled for the Boxers.
"A Lofty Ideal." Benes began his first exile in 1915 when he was a wispy little 31-year-old scholar. He wanted for his Czech people "the freedom of conscience and a lofty ideal of justice." That was his line of thought, but his line of action was to work...
However wrongheaded Britons thought last week's effusion, most of them agreed that the Duke was sincere and no quisling. Some even admired his courage in sticking to his beliefs. Said the Duke: "I am prepared to risk imprisonment or internment. ... I should not enjoy it, but I should...