Word: wrongheadedness
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Disney's new animated movie, Chicken Little, picks up where the classic children's tale leaves off. CHICKEN LITTLE, who was struck by an errant acorn, has discovered that his crusade to tell the king "the sky is falling" was wrongheaded. The movie chronicles the exploits of the now infamous...
William F. Buckley has always seemed wrongheaded to me, but I've had to admire his articulateness. His answer to the first of your "10 Questions" [April 12], however, included the phrase "humble folk like you and I," instead of "like you and me." One hopes this grammatical bobble was...
The United States’ visa policy for foreign students is appallingly muddled—leaving many students who dream of attending higher eduction in the United States waiting unfairly for months, if not years, in limbo. Still other students have been discouraged from applying. Reform is clearly needed, and...
In making The Elizabeth Smart Story, on the other hand, CBS worked closely with the family of the Utah girl abducted for nine months, allegedly by a religious fanatic and drifter who calls himself Emmanuel. The movie follows Ed and Lois Smart as they butt heads with the police, who...
Didion makes these verdicts personal by presenting her own family--Californians for five generations--as prime embodiments of the state's ambiguous destiny. Nor does she spare herself: she offers a probing critique of what she now considers her wrongheaded nostalgia for the old California in her 1963 novel, Run...