Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...assume that women carelessly opt for abortion is both patronizing and paternalistic. The state should stay neutral in the moral debate between right-to-lifers and proabortionists--it would be equally wrong in insisting that all pregnant women read a statement outlining the difficulties of motherhood. Moreover, the law's lukewarm attempt at preventing abortions will not deter those intent on having them; the only effect will be to drive women--especially minors--away from reputable clinics...
...point, though, is that these people should be commended for at least trying to bring some responsibility to the use of abortion. We do not feel it is wrong to say that 40,000 abortions in one year in the state of Massachusetts is too many. We do not feel that it is altogether obvious to all the women having abortions that abortion is emphatically not a method of birth control. Something has to be done, and if the state legislature has been less than dexterous in doing it, it is not the first time...
...generation, Kuralt was not even in the running. Many viewers think he should have been. When he sat in for Cronkite a few weeks ago, Kuralt's warmth and humor set off an avalanche of mail to the CBS newsroom. "Mostly they told us we had picked the wrong man to succeed Walter," said one top CBS News producer...
Something is wrong with the crucifix. Hanging in the tiny church in a Virginia country town, it distresses the new pastor. The wooden corpus, Monsignor Vincent Shepherd observes, has "square, unsuffering eyes" that symbolize to the priest so much that is wrong with his church and his world. The sense of crucifixion is gone. Instead, he reflects, "it was as if Christ had never really suffered and died, but had only had the Last Supper, with twelve smiling men of social commitment and three folk guitarists, and then knocked the stone away from the tomb...
...something is wrong with the priest too. Shepherd has suffered a heart attack, and he is preoccupied with his own mortality. He clings to time as if to fend off eternity, but does little with it. He sits for hours in front of the rectory television set, resentful of parishioners who disturb him with their problems, unmindful that their private griefs are real wounds...