Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...shouldered all the blame for the U-2 May Day flight. By this time critics were saying that the U.S. should stick to one side or the other, moralists were saying that the U.S. should not lie, and sophisticates in the espionage trade were saying that the U.S. did wrong to tell the truth...
...first days after the U-2 case broke, a general reading of the U.S. daily press could only have led to the conclusions that 1) the U.S. was almost totally in the wrong, and 2) chances for "success" at the Paris summit conference had been woefully diminished. From country publisher to Washington pundit, from cartoonist (see cuts) to editorial writer, came the outcries...
will have no prisons-only psychiatric treatment centers for lawbreakers. "I am at odds with the legal profession and most of psychiatry," he conceded, "but they're all wrong. The question is simply, 'Is the accused sick or not?' You can't have mental illness and criminal responsibility in the same person at the same time." From the Snake Pit. Few psychiatrists lined up behind Dr. Karpman's banner...
...courts have followed the M'Xaghten Rule: an accused is "sane" (a legal rather than a psychiatric term), and therefore responsible for his criminal acts, unless at the time of the crime he did not know what he was doing or did not know that it was wrong. But since 1954 the law and psychiatry have been wrestling with an attempt by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia to liberalize the definition of "sanity" as a measure of criminal responsibility. Under this court's Durham Rule,* an accused is not responsible, and therefore...
...this finite image for a new Pelagian tactic, for a new type of third act, the third act of the power and the exclamation point." Society & Ritual. Similarly, too many people turn in disgust from the finite facts of society and seek to escape toward the absolute. That is wrong, says Lynch: "But the Catholic imagination does not force me to imagine that at the end I must free myself from all human society to unite myself with God. Rather, it helps me to imagine that once I have embarked on a good thing with all its concreteness (here...