Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Please tell me I am wrong; please do not tell me that you attempted to pluralize the Latin tempus and made it into tempi...
...signs are that Washington was wrong. In a recent bulletin issued by the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet woman scientist, Geophysicist V. A. Troitskaya, reports that the shots showed up almost instantly on Soviet instruments designed to measure minute electric currents flowing through the earth. Apparently the explosions caused disturbances in the earth's magnetic field, and these spread as waves, moving with almost the speed of light. At almost the same instant, Soviet monitoring stations in the Pacific, in Central Asia, on the Black Sea, and near Murmansk in extreme northwestern Russia recorded the waves clearly. After...
...criteria of good and evil are to be found in man's nature; man is naturally a social being; therefore the good of society is man's good. Theft, for example, is wrong because it subverts the basis of social life, as does any private injury to another. When there is conflict between the satisfaction of two natural requirements, the rational (therefore the lawful) course is to subordinate the lower to the higher. Thus self-preservation is good, but to refuse to risk one's life when the well-being of society demands it is wrong...
...doctors also criticized parents who instruct children that the "desire to win" is more important than simple participation. Said Pittsburgh's Dr. Macdonald: "The only thing really wrong with children's competitive athletics is the adults who run them...
There are things in All the Way Home that seem quite wrong. Jay's brother looms too large, performs too loud; the play is far too long in ending and then ends badly. Other things in the play seem insufficient and even flat: scenes lack outward drama without displaying any of Agee's inner force. But, with good performances by Colleen Dewhurst, Arthur Hill, Aline MacMahon and John Megna (as the small son), the people, most of them, smell of life and their behavior smacks of truth. Miles apart as in many ways they are, Agee, like Chekhov...