Word: lapsus
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...think one administrator slipped and gave the real answer. This lapsus linguae can be found in today's article about the College's unnecessary escalation of alcohol policy enforcement. Winthrop House Senior Tutor Gregory Mobley spilled the administration's secret when he said, "We have a vital interest in keeping everyone safe until they grow...
...Freudiosyncracy; just a lapsus manus...
Kuzma V. Kisselev slipped. Asked when students would be admitted to his Byelorussia, he said: "After the war." Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae." His translator, who knew no Latin, looked blank. "Tell them I made a mistake," said Kisselev...
...alert Editor of Religion gave a report of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Richmond, Va. in which he represented with fairness the attitude of Southern Baptists toward the proposed World Council of Churches. In one clause of the opening sentence there is a serious lapsus pennae. Baptists never speak of "the saving grace of baptism." They do not believe that regeneration takes place in water baptism. Regeneration is a spiritual process and not sacramental. Salvation is by grace through faith...
...Famous Parodies and Burlesques by Sheridan. Thackeray, Bret Harte Calverley (author of "Fly Leaves,") J. K. Stephen (author of "Lapsus Calami,") and others. Mr. Copeland. Sever 11, 8 p. m. The reading will be interspersed with a few remarks on the value of parody as criticism...