Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...going back to it in 1960." Kennedy delivered a full-dress speech to a Democratic dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: "I will not risk American lives and a nuclear war by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unsound militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies." He topped it off by warning against "a trigger-happy President in the White House...
...psychology, coping with a present crisis by reverting to a past critical decision is known as regression, usually with highly perjorative overtones. There need be nothing wrong with reconsidering high school decisions--often it is essential if the Freshmen is not to become bogged down in an intellectual dead end--but it is ironic that he often is forced to change those attitudes which originally led him to Harvard: his views on the meaning of education, his own intellectual pretensions, and the relation of intellect to his own social outlook...
...expressed regrets for accidental overflights in Cuba, Russia, and East Germany. A month ago, said Kennedy, Cabot Lodge "said that if there was ever a case where we did not have the law on our side, it was in the U-2 incident." Replied Nixon: Kennedy was wrong to expect that Khrushchev might have continued with the summit meeting even if the U.S. had expressed regrets, and that furthermore, Ike had been "defending the security of this country against surprise attack ... I don't intend to see to it that the U.S. is ever in a position where, while...
...family-controlled companies, keeping the money in the family is often top policy, since there are seldom outside stockholders who might complain. Sam Alterman, vice president of the Atlanta-based Big Apple grocery chain (50 stores), which is largely owned by him and his three brothers, finds nothing wrong with buying from another brother for his chain-when his brother meets price and quality requirements. Still other firms condone profitable outside interests as devices to spare their executives from high-bracket income taxes-one of the chief reasons for sideline interests. San Francisco Management Consultant Leland...
...Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen...