Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...title is derived from Harlow's first disastrous spring practice at a Harvard, indifferent to the point of hostility. It was in 1935, and according to Harlow, "I was stunned. . . . Something was wrong. These boys evidently expected their coach to brew some magic formula to waft the other team away before each game in the fall. . . . They didn't need coaching; it was a matter of psychology...
...political memory. The professionals-politicos, newshawks, photographers-had only gradually come to understand that, since Mr. Willkie was no politician, his campaign, in any ordinary sense, would be unpolitical. This was the root cause of the Willkie failures and the Willkie triumphs. He did everything politically wrong on a magnificent scale; when he was right he was terrific...
...Margie: "A little romance and sentiment help to while away a man's lonely hours. I only wish I could do more for our soldiers. . . . I do hope the generals won't give my picture to married men. I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea...
...permitting French defense of the French Empire, had brought about 3,000 more men, all of whom would be a long time forgiving the British for the Battle of Oran. The new battleship Richelieu which the British crippled last July was in drydock at Dakar, but there was nothing wrong with her 15-inch guns...
...turned out by this method some very unusual scores, notably that of Swiss Family Robinson, which was built up on Schubert quartets. But the method had obvious disadvantages. To those who knew the music being played, it was harrowing to hear it repeated over and over again, piecemeal, in wrong keys, with wierd and incorrect harmonies affixed to it, distorted and tortured to fit the varying moods of the plot. A score like this can never represent any very important emotional contribution on the part of a composer; at best it is a facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous...