Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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RELIGION WAS RIGHT and science is wrong," wrote D.H. Lawrence in 1923. "Every individual creature has a soul, a specific individual nature, the origin of which cannot be discovered in any cause-and-effect process whatever. Individuality appears in defiance of all scientific laws." By "science" and "laws" Lawrence meant psychoanalysis, which to him stripped away the dignity and mystery of mankind and reduced all human actions to the perfectly rational level. Under psychological scrutiny man ceases to be human at all. Instead he becomes "a little god inside a machine, working all the gears...
...friends. The roles that society has forced upon him have kept him from being as expressive and family-oriented as he might have wanted to be, and have prevented my mother from pursuing the career that I know would have been so satisfying to her. Obviously, something is seriously wrong with a society that keeps large segments of its population in emotional and behavioral chains. The resolutions to the problems are complex, and will not come easily but the benefits would be great--greater freedom for all of us, both men and women, straight and gay, to express our total...
...misdirected. His George is too blustery and dumbfounded--can this really be the same man that once invented a machine gun that could make tea while firing? George Riley should express the faded dignity of old England; he is an intelligent, romantic man who somehow got switched onto the wrong track and can no longer find his way back. To feel pity for George, we must believe in his past, and Redlich fails to express this. He is too young, loud, and energetic for a man whose only future lies in his memories. The only suggestion we have...
...services had so much trouble fathoming what is on the electorate's mind. As the presidential campaign rolled on in weekly installments, surprise, upset and the unexpected have been the bulletins of the day. Often nobody got it right in advance; the unlucky were those who got it wrong out front where everybody could read it or hear...
...MUST SHARE THE BURDEN). Then the next week, some 100 advance issues of the Sunday Globe appeared with the wrong edition of the syndicated Parade magazine supplement; instead of the intended cover story about TV's Walter Cronkite, readers of these were treated to a feature on New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, who may be the most unpopular personality in Red Sox-mad Boston since King George...