Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Exactly what went wrong aboard the Prinsendam is to be determined by a Dutch investigation. Preliminary accounts indicate that a fuel line may have broken, causing diesel oil to spurt on hot pipes and burst into flames. The fire knocked out the electrical system, shutting down the fire-fighting pumps. Crewmen sprayed carbon dioxide from handheld extinguishers, but could not keep the flames from spreading to other parts of the ship through an air shaft...
Still, the success of the rescue did nothing to allay the concerns of experienced seamen. Said a U.S. maritime safety expert: "Something went wrong aboard that ship, something unnecessarily wrong." The Prinsendam was not equipped with a sprinkler system, but none was required because the ship was constructed with as few combustible materials as possible. It also had fire-resistant doors and insulated steel bulkheads. Maintained Gerrit Van Veen, technical director for Holland America Lines: "Even if the Prinsendam had a sprinkler system, I doubt whether this could have prevented the fire from spreading." Holland America officials contended that...
...matinee with the superintendent (Everett McGill). O.K., her Mongol cheekbones do suggest a touch of fashion-model class. True, the young super does look as if he placed second in a Jack Palance look-alike contest. But it is still 1953, and this is Union City, N.J. From the wrong side of the Hudson River, the lights of New York can seem a million miles away...
...essence of these worlds, their "inner weave," lies in their details. "One should notice and fondle details," he says. "There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected." The bulk of these lectures consists of rapt, minute scrutiny of such trifles. Nabokov does a virtual time-and-motion study of the daylong "dance of fate" between Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. He reads volumes into Flaubert's use of the word and in Madame Bovary. Under his microscope, the "flushed...
...broke with the regime and became an exile in Paris. The reasons for his defection became clear two years later with the appearance of The Captive Mind: "The immediate cause of my break with the Polish People's Democracy was socialist realism. It would be wrong to judge that this official theory of art, imposed by Moscow, forces the writer and artist to renounce certain aesthetic likings. It forces him to renounce something more: truth...