Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly made and it is inevitable that some of these will go wrong. We should not be continually calling foot-faults on such occasions . . . particularly ... in the first months of a new Administration. 3) When we believe the Republican Party and the Administration to be in serious error, however, we should speak out vigorously . . . But in doing so we should refrain from attacking the motives or character of the President, or of our opponents...
Died. James Garfield Randall, 71, eight-volume biographer of Lincoln (Lincoln and the South, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman) and longtime (1920-49) professor of history at the University of Illinois who pictured the Civil War not as an "irrepressible conflict" but as the tragic error of a "blundering generation"; of leukemia; in Urbana...
Foiled by the Partition plan, Russia recognized Israel, hoping to lead the new country with enough Communists to get both Jewish allegiance and a well-fortified outpost on the Mediterranean. This was the Kremlin's biggest error in judgment. Even now the Mapai and General Zionist parties have framed a resolution to throw the Communists out of parliament along with any other party which received less than 10 percent of the vote...
Congressional committees have no place investigating teachers' opinions and past affiliations, except where overt acts against the government are concerned, he maintained. "A very considerable number of current teachers flirted with communism in the '30's, but later saw the error of their ways and got out." It's absurd to penalize people for this fleeting association in the past, he stated...
...author portrays him, appears to hold some strong opinions about students and about the college newspaper. But to ascribe these opinions to Theodore Morrison is to confuse the fictional character and his world with the character and the world of the artist who created them--a fairly serious critical error. That your reviewer commits this error seems plain. In six consecutive sentences (including the end of paragraph two, all of paragraph three, and the opening of paragraph four), are listed a number of specific attitudes. At the beginning of this sequence, the "he" to whom the attitudes are ascribed...