Word: wrongness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...workers. But that mood quickly shifted to a lighter one, as some chanted: "Eighty-four! Eighty-four!" The Senator smiled, waved his fist and left the room. One of Kennedy's friends later told him: "If you're right and you lose, you can feel good. If you're wrong and you lose, you feel terrible. You should feel good." Replied Kennedy: "Yes, but there's something to be said for being right and winning...
...fall by Ted Kennedy and almost everyone else that a person who had come through the assassination of two brothers and the personal scandal of Chappaquiddick, and who had served 17 years in the U.S. Senate, was prepared for big power politics. These assumptions proved to be almost entirely wrong. Kennedy could not articulate any appreciation of the economic anguish of Middle Americans. Nor did he understand the ferocity of the political encounters on the presidential level in these times or the smoldering resentment against his personal excesses in earlier years...
More important than the possible political reasons for Carter's action is the impact the policy may have at home and abroad. Doves are generally critical. Complains Scoville: "Anything that makes it easier to fight nuclear war is a step in the wrong direction." Even Har old Brown has had reservations about the counterforce strategy; he has been wor ried that once a nuclear exchange begins, no matter how limited, it will inevitably escalate into Armageddon. But Brown also believes that the U.S. must have the option of responding to a nuclear strike with something less than a full...
...drink have such intense emotional significance that they are often linked with events that have nothing to do with nutrition. The perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party were angry not over tea but over taxation; the breadline and apple-sellers of the Great Depression became symbols of what was wrong with the economy . . . the civil-rights movement . . . during the 1950s began as a dispute about the right of blacks not simply to eat at lunch counters but to sit down there with whites . . ." The interrelation of men and menus has filled hundreds of texts. But none of them have digested...
...This theme returned passionately in the countercultural '60s, when inarticulate sincerity seemed the answer to the state's mendacities. Some preached that imperialism, racism and sexism are deeply embedded in the language-a fact that, if true, would tend to discredit eloquence, to make it futile and wrong from the start...