Word: wrongly
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...first volume of Schlesinger's memoirs, "A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950" (Houghton Mifflin; 557 pages; $28.95), is a rich, spirited performance. Schlesinger moves energetically down the years, meeting everyone worth meeting, dispensing opinions (sometimes brilliant, sometimes merely partisan and captious, sometimes dead wrong, as when, early on, he pronounces Harry Truman to be a corrupt mediocrity). T. S. Eliot wrote, "The trilling wire in the blood sings beneath inveterate scars,/ Appeasing long forgotten wars...
...creative way to save some money, and there's nothing wrong with that," Plants says...
...Gore, widely thought to be brainy - ostentatiously brainy, as smart as Mr. Toad - suffers from a sort of stupidity of character. It could be the pressure of the campaign. But he has seemed off for a long time now, like an untuned engine - unsocialized, unmodulated, the adjustments wrong on the carburetor. Why does he run around like that? Unsafe at any speed, you might say. Americans know how to listen to an engine, and the something-not-quite-right that they hear in Gore's accounts for the trouble he's in now. Call "Car Talk" and discuss the problem...
MISUNDERSTOOD TOTS A new study finds that most parents believe six-month-old infants can be spoiled if you pick them up too often (they can't), and that a 15-month-old is mature enough to share toys (wrong again). Unrealistic expectations can cause stress for both parents and children and may be responsible for the growing number of tots who are overly aggressive and easily frustrated...
Conrad Burns, G.O.P. Senator from Montana, epitomizes rough-edged, Western independence. A tobacco-chewing conservative, he picks his teeth with a pocket knife and skewers liberal dogma with equal relish. He sees nothing wrong with snowmobiles in national forests, thinks drug companies aren't getting a fair shake and leads Congress in donations from Big Tobacco...