Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a prominent preacher in this city [Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick] if he is correctly reported, preaching to a body of [Smith College] students, scoffed at the idea of 'trying to send a new generation into the world with a definite code of "right and wrong" ' and told those young people that the old ideas of 'right' and 'wrong' have been dropped and that the criterion of behavior is simply what we happen to regard as 'beautiful' and 'ugly'- which means, I suppose, that there is no longer...
...Fosdick had said: "There is plenty that is rotten and hypocritical in the old codes concerning love and the relationship of the sexes. Surely they can be changed and the simple standard can be substituted. Whatever debases personality is wrong and ugly; whatever elevates personality is right and beautiful...
...Finally, the standard of good taste is not a negative thing, merely keeping us from wrong. It is a creative thing. That is why your generation is so fine, so much cleaner, healthier, more promising than my generation. For when a generation discovers that the old codes cannot be used and sets up for themselves high standards of their own they have much firmer ground on which to proceed...
...read or to write. The admirably condensed style of TIME is lost upon him. He picks upon a few minor objections and uses them to vent his spleen against Americans in general-the commonest form of logical fallacy; generalizing from insufficient data. He is utterly and absolutely wrong in his statements and implications. I have studied the written and spoken language in England and in America for many years, have sold my writings in both countries and can adduce abundant proof that the average level of culture evidenced and the average quality of grammar used by the masses in America...
...explanation is simple Mr. and Mrs. Smith move with the crowd. In normal times the crowd assumes a normal attitude toward war. War is not only wrong, it is absurd. In times of stress the crowd assumes an abnoraml attitude toward war. It ceases to question. It becomes hysterical. It becomes a mob. But a mob, because it is hysterical is temporarily affected with a species of insanity. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the fire-eaters of 1927, were as insane as the responsible citizens who are parties to a lynching party. As the Black Plague formely swept...