Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...they sniffed the first whiff of smog at their writing desks in a university founded on the wealth of a New York railroad baron, the essayists of I'll Take My Stand shared, as Warren put it, a "dire suspicion" "that a great commonwealth has gone wrong." The enemy was industrialism, which they characterized as "an evil dispensation" and "a pizen snake." The issue was an intensely personal matter, almost a family feud...
...Restic knows that when things go wrong. Jeff Toobin will ask why. Jeff and the rest of the staff in the Crimson sports Cube go right to the source for the inside story on Harvard sports. And when things go right, the Cube--and its staff of talented sports photographers--are there with the action, wherever...
...already been printed in the papers many times. The mechanical narrative lacks all bite, which is both exasperating and immoral given the dramatic possibilities and the horror of the case. Larson has no human response to the killings or any intention of trying to figure out what went wrong with Ted Bundy and his society. It sounds like he just wanted to get a book on Bundy out before we forget the whole thing...
Hollywood called in 1932, and Mae headed West, where she remained for the rest of her life. She Done Him Wrong (1933) was her first big picture, and audiences were enchanted by her earthy humor and the total lack of the hypocrisy that was convention in most other films of the time. As an established playwright, she was allowed to write her own dialogue, and thus began the long list of famous Westian one-liners. "Haven't you ever met a man who could make you happy?" Co-Star Cary Grant asks her. "Sure," she replies. "Lots of times...
...wrong she was, especially in her own case. Granted, she had a point about the stylistic changes since Horace Walpole or, later, those Victorian worthies enshrined in three-decker "Lives and Letters." Vanished are the leisurely epistles addressed to a quasi-public circle of acquaintances (and, between the lines, to posterity); the 20th century goes elsewhere for its literary entertainment and journalism. In all of Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great...