Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...America-Love It or Sell It." "My Profit, Right or Wrong." "The Only Good Red Is One Who Keeps Us in the Black...
...going to make a name for myself," young Eadweard Muybridge told a friend. "If I fail, you will never hear of me again." The prediction was wrong on two counts. The 19th century British photographer was to be celebrated for his multiple photographs proving that during a gallop all four of a horse's hoofs leave the ground. His series became the basis for motion picture photography, and today the man should be as celebrated as Thomas Edison, to whom he was once compared. But Muybridge's pioneering works fell between the stools of still photography and cinema...
Should the group's commitment to preventing draft registration also include strong anti-militaristic principles? Should thev focus on peace now or peace always? Should the libertarian argument that forced draft is wrong under any circumstances be adopted...
...responsibility to continue to believe that change is possible, to cling to idealism. If students do not question Harvard's actions, the leaders of this institution will conclude they are doing the right thing. If professors or administrators disagree with students, they should try to convince them they are wrong. And even if most graduates become doctors, lawyers and businessmen, their concern and their ideas are not invalid. The apostasy of the individual does not discredit the cause...
...descending order of status, of the Los Angeles hotels favored by showfolk. He does it perfectly, beginning with the Bel-Air, ending with the Montecito. This may seem a small felicity, but it is precisely the sort of thing that writers of parboiled Hollywood romans à clef usually get wrong or skip altogether in their haste to get to the casting couch and the boudoir...