Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23, 1958), President José ("Pepe") Figueres of Costa Rica, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (under Franklin Roosevelt) Adolf A. Berle Jr. He lingered over garlicky meals in modest Manhattan restaurants, analyzed what had gone wrong. After nine years of wandering and pondering, he decided that A.D. had made "psychological errors. There was a certain arrogance, a certain intolerance with minorities. Some say we tried to do too much too fast...
Selling Climax? The stock market, on the other hand, tries to reflect not what is happening but what will happen-though, as a prophet, it has been proved wrong as often as right. Some curbstone economists are even looking ahead to "the next recession,'' variously estimated to occur in 1961 or 1962, and trying to get into their storm cellars early...
...recorded in Genesis? Do you recognize a position in Wheaton College as a divine calling to Christian service? Have you used tobacco, alcoholic beverages or narcotic drugs in any form within the past year, or danced or played cards or attended the theater or moving-picture theater? The wrong answer to any question automatically eliminates the candidate...
...general he had intended to support has won, but in the confusion of fighting, the captain has thrown his company into battle with the loser. "Yes, I can see the joke of that," says Vogel, also wounded. "You might put it that one always does join the wrong army...
...vicious characters, jailers and jailed, are often splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...