Word: misguidedness
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The Bell Curve is indeed controversial and is has the frightening potential to become a Bible for any number of political factions. It is therefore an important, if sadly misguided, work. Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, the moderator, rightly argued that debates about the intersection between race and social policy have...
David J. Andorsky's recent editorial ("A Space Station Is Too Costly: The Federal Government Should Spend Its Money at Home," February 7, 1995) contains several persuasive, and familiar, arguments. The accompanying cartoon, a picture of a beggar looking forlornly into the night sky at a constellation that resembles a...
Military officials insisted that the problem was an old one and that new procedures for enforcing discipline have changed the situation. One of Canada's best-known soldiers, retired Major General Lewis Mackenzie, who served as chief of U.N. peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, claimed that the...
Council member Cachan's accusation of insensitivity and near racism by randomization opponents is misplaced and misguided. Hopefully he will refrain from similarly offensive, inflammatory, and unproductive remarks in the future. --C.R. McFadden '95
The contrived "Immortal Beloved" would have worked better as a farce. The film's misguided distortion of facts simply can't sustain high drama. In one scene, Beethoven's doomed nephew, driven to suicide by his uncle's frustarted attempts to mold him into a musical prodigy, shoots himself in...