Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...world and the analysis of the editors in New York, came a clear view of a complicated week. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Visible Hand, On With the Trip and The No. I Objective; FOREIGN NEWS, The Expendable Premier and The Men Behind the Mobs; and PRESS, Free Press Gone Wrong...
...together. In the pleasant bar, Moslem Somalis sit in one corner drinking Coca-Cola; a group of Kenyans sip martinis, Tanganyikans have their whiskies, and a Uganda engineer drinks beer by himself. All the talk is of politics, both international (a majority held that Khrushchev was right and Eisenhower wrong on the U-2 question) and domestic. Where West Africans have little time for fun and games ("except," said one, "when we celebrate each other's independence days and get out the drums and dance"), East Africans take girls out on dates, drop over to a friend...
Decca & Boud. The reader who feels at this stage that he has wandered into an early Evelyn Waugh novel will not be far wrong. Waugh might indeed have written another Decline and Fall based on Jessica's chronicle. There is even a Waughlike Mitford uncle who was the author of one book, a privately printed volume of his letters to the London Times and other publications, notably on the subject of manure; his notion was that the greatness of Elizabethan Eng land was due to the widespread use of sheep droppings in producing an organically based diet and thus...
...competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
...What is wrong with the steel industry? When the year began, almost everyone expected the industry, freshly recovered from a strike, to run for months at or near full capacity. But one of the paradoxes of the economy is that, while such big steel-users as the auto industry are running at close to a record rate, steel is undergoing its own private recession. Last week steel production was scheduled at 66.9% of capacity, the lowest nonstrike rate in 20 months-and the rate is due to drop more. U.S. Steel, biggest U.S. producer, announced that it will close down...