Word: wrongest
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...cultural predictions after 9/11, the first proved the wrongest: that grief and war would moderate our culture and elide our differences. Movies would stop blowing up buildings; reality shows would stop humiliating people; comedians would stop being ironic. Atlantic Monthly editor Michael Kelly envisioned a day when American men would again be able to wear fedora hats without smirking. It was a fleeting moment for cultural critics who, like The Great Gatsby's Nick Carraway, longed to see the world "in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever...