Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...semi-colons in paragraphs where Kelly jams together various clauses in a weak imitation of Faulkner. In one place, near the beginning of the story, Kelly pictures the imagination of the little boy wandering from his father's bed to the various associations it suggests. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with this excursion, except that Kelly has put it all into one very long, half-page sentence. Faulkner has made this technique work; Kelly, however, is not yet up to such a sophisticated maneuver, and the sentence is almost a total loss, producing a senseless jumble--if indeed...
...Center, Iowa last week, Richard Nixon wanted the farmers to know that they are the last people he would hold responsible for the costly farm program. Fat farm surpluses that have kept farm profits so slim, said he, are the "product more of politics than of productivity. It is wrong to blame the farmer for the fact that Government illogically insisted upon unrealistic incentives to keep production up, while at the same time it conjured up bureaucratic controls in a futile attempt to keep production down...
...moves all over again. All spring we worked with Breeding, and he couldn't quite make it. Then, ten minutes before an exhibition game in Richmond, he caught on. He got it. The double play." Adds Coach Harris: "I bet Richards showed Breeding what he was doing wrong 500 times. It was the 501st time that Breeding caught on. He won't give up, that Richards...
...Campbell's nine major U.S. plants every hour of the day. At 11 a.m. the manager and his executive assistants at each plant pause for spot taste-testing. If the celery in Sacramento's soup, or the carrots in Omaha's TV Dinner, are the wrong color or taste, the whole production batch is thrown out. Campbell once destroyed $5,000,000 worth of tomato juice because it failed to measure up to Campbell standards...
...Sound of the Pipes. Outside the Elysee, De Gaulle's pronouncements left few people laughing, were greeted even by his allies with veiled dismay and hostility. While West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer hopefully announced from an Italian vacation retreat that there must have been "wrong interpretation of some of De Gaulle's ideas." Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns bluntly stated that his government regarded any scheme to dilute NATO as "intolerable." How, others asked, could De Gaulle talk of strictly national defense when nearly the entire French army was bogged down in Algeria? De Gaulle...