Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been notoriously eager to acknowledge their mistakes," said Donovan. "Many have perfected a smoothway of taking a new position without ever noting that they once held quite the opposite view." As for professors, "surely everyone would agree that the people who should be first and frankest in admitting error would be the academic intellectuals, with their totally disinterested dedication to free inquiry. But the recent record is not reassuring. Perhaps it will be this generation of university graduates, your generation, that could teach Americans how to be wrong...
...functions held for his benefit between 1961 and 1965 yielded personal, tax-free gifts for use at his discretion, not campaign contributions that had to be spent for political purposes. Dodd clung to his story, conceding only that he spent just $3,100 out of other contributions, again by error rather than design. But Stennis and Utah's Wallace Bennett, the ranking Republican on the ethics committee, repeatedly lacerated his arguments, some of which glossed over a stipulation of facts agreed to earlier by Dodd and the investigating committee...
...certain sense, a liability. The typical musician here is bright, attentive and clever enough to sight-read and/or fake his way through almost any part that is put in front of him. These are assets valuable in any musician, but the Harvard undergraduate often commits the grave error of depending on his native intelligence and talent to get him by, rather than using them as a tool for achieving a fuller understanding and more meaningful performance of the music. The typical musician performs in as many events as he can, leaving himself little or no time to practice...
...Fellows program is just as experimental as the rest of the Institute's endeavor. Intensively experimental, with all the characteristics thereof: disorganization, gaps, trial-and-error on the one hand; innovation, excitement, freedom on the other. And we don't yet know the results. The returns aren't in; the experiment continues...
...fellow leftists in Syria. His intention was to brake the schemes of the Damascus regime to precipitate war with Israel at any cost, but the Baathists proved impossible to restrain; they kept up irksome terrorist attacks over the Israeli border. Stung by these attacks, Premier Eshkol made the second error by threatening war against Syria to stop them. Charging that an Israeli invasion was on the way, Syria thereupon mobilized its troops and called on Egypt to mobilize also under the mutual de fense treaty. If he hoped to retain any glimmering of his declining prestige in the Arab world...