Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...college but do not even aspire to go. Many among them are what sociologists gingerly call the "culturally deprived"-Negroes, Puerto Ricans, poor whites-who do not know that they are bright. Others are slum and farm kids ignored by crowded colleges because they go to "wrong" schools. (Of the nation's 26,500 high schools, a mere 5,000 produce 82% of all college students.) In a "rich and fat" country, says Harvard Dean Monro, "we just cannot sit cheerfully any more and watch good young minds by the thousands shrivel away...
...Congenial. "The sad fact is she's calculated wrong every time she's made a decision," said Arthur Miller in 1956. But he also saw in Marilyn Monroe "tremendous native feeling. She has more guts than a slaughterhouse. Being with her, people want not to die. She's all woman' the most womanly woman in the world." Did her miscellaneous loves, her hopeless marriages to the California cop and Joe DiMaggio, trouble him? "I've known social workers who have had a more checkered history than she has," said Miller gallantly. For her part, Monroe...
...three points of the actual spread. The Princeton Research Service predicted a 52-48 percentage score in Kennedy's favor, although the final count was 50.2%-49.8%. Only Veteran Elmo Roper, who reported on election eve that Nixon looked to squeeze ahead by two percentage points, chose the wrong winner; yet even Roper claimed to "feel wonderful," because all such samplings allow themselves a 4% cushion...
...Yalie Daily got the only score when CRIME scatback Tiger Welch took a spinning hand-off from Ullyot and spun 50 yards the wrong way to a Yalie safety...
...artificial and fundamentally wrong division" is developing between research and teaching in the nation's universities, according to a report by President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee on the role of federal aid in science and technology...