Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This is a brilliant theme, and it leaves you with the same empty and puzzled feeling that Boulle's The Bridge on the River Kwai produced. But there are many things wrong with this play. The deputy seemingly turns from a fearless cynic to a jellyfish with startling rapidity, but his about-face is nothing compared to the prosecutor's. At the end of Act II, Poole is battling with a troubled conscience and trying to lead investigators away from evidence that tends to indict young Harold Rutland (played by George Grizzard). Soon after the beginning of Act III, however...
Kennedy on the other hand is a friend of the author and hence the rather doubtful procedure of psychoanalysis here has more validity. But for Mr. Schlesinger, Kennedy can do no wrong. If the Massachusetts Senator has changed his views, this is not Nixon duplicity, but a resolution of his own identity. This has an element of truth since Kennedy's record has been one of a consistent growth towards a liberal position. Yet the reader is definitely aware that the two men are not being judged by the same standard...
...nothing right. The usually reliable right side of the line leaked considerably; safety men got in each others' way and dropped easy punts; routine tackles were missed; the team's quarterback was covered on every play; the players had a knack at producing wholly needless penalties at the wrong time; backs couldn't find holes, hit other backs, and had to push tardy blockers...
...wonder whether some of your readers may not get the wrong impression from this article. You make no mention of the hundreds of thousands of American children still having to attend classes in basements, in barns and in firetrap structures because of the extreme shortage of schools...
While some traders worried about what was going on at the United Nations, biggest reason for the drop was worry about what is going on in U.S. business. The course of the economy has been so puzzling this year-and so many have already guessed wrong on where the economy is going-that investors and businessmen alike have become uncertain. Few are at all sure about what is ahead. Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block spoke for many businessmen when he said: "I've never seen a year when our forecasts and actual production were so out of line...