Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Jimmy campaigned valiantly, handicapped by the fact that he could not find anything particularly wrong with Warren. He got only grudging support from the politicos, who mistrust him, and from Democratic Party Chief Harry Truman, who remembers that Jimmy led a Democratic "draft Eisenhower" movement back...
Psychiatrists believe that there is a large group of people in the U.S.-perhaps half a million-who are legally sane (i.e., they know the difference between right & wrong) but socially irresponsible. Many of them are brilliant and charming. Their condition is likened to a fine automobile with no brakes. At any time they may steal, maim or kill, and when they do they will feel little or no remorse...
...want sunshine in the bathroom when you are in it only in the morning and at night? . . . What's wrong with the smell of food if the cooking is good? No privacy? My apartments are for young people who have a different ethic from that of the French or American bourgeoisie. Everybody will be in the salon together or everybody will...
...life I am working for the right expression for this piece. It is 60 years now and I have not found it. Perhaps we can find it together." His favorite admonition was "Naturally-play naturally." When he was pleased he cried, "Eggzactly-eggzactly." Once when a musician struck a wrong note and others looked pained, Casals remarked cheerfully: "In Bach's time everybody played out of tune. The spirit is more important than wrong notes...
...Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...