Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...races through his veins suggests that he is as much passion's fool as passion's slave. At the end of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, the hero has discovered himself. At the end of Othello, the hero has simply unmasked lago and uncovered his own calamitous error. He has been tortured but not tutored by his destiny...
Speaking for the court, Justice William Brennan held that the 1962 decision was in error and "subsequent events have undermined its continuing validity." Moreover, Congress's enactment of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act put a new burden on the courts to cool labor disputes by upholding arbitration and similar techniques...
...surely cannot be clearer than it is now that this war which brings us the civilian massacres at Ben Tre and My Lai, the destruction of the historic city of Hue, and the death of countless fighting men, including 42,000 Americans, is a horrendous error. This war is not for the benefit of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, or the United States: it is detrimental...
...invention of murder is even more ingenious: Cain learns how to kill Abel with the trial-and-error self-instruction of a man inventing the first wheel. All ends on a chorus of Moonlight Bay that seems to forecast with terrifying accuracy the sweetly ominous banality of millions of lives to come as sex and murder endlessly cycle...
...intelligence pipeline is further bent because even good data gathered in the field pass through many channels before arriving at their destination. If the information was not digested, of course, it would be unmanageable. So at each step, it is scrutinized, reinterpreted, perhaps expanded, more often cut down. An error at one stage can become magnified in the result...