Word: misreadings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rococo Invective. For a practicing iconoclast, however, Mencken chose surprisingly feeble icons of his own. As a young man, he fell for Nietzsche and his doctrinal fantasy of the Ubermensch. As misread by Mencken, Nietzsche provided license to despise the human race and delight in all things German-as epitomized by beer and Brahms. Politicians were rogues. The church was only a racket. People in general were boobs. Such were the underpinnings of Mencken's rococo invective. But when serious matters were involved, his philosophical resources were meager and his thinking often callow and jejune...
...most important criticism, however, concerns the apparent fear that the faculty might have to discuss and act on a case on its merits. The first time I saw this line I thought I had misread it. What seems to be considered the desideratum is that the faculty never be presented with a case that must be dealt with on its merits. Since that is absurd, one notes that "political" cases are specified. Very well, but one man's "politics" are another's "academics" and a third's "ethics." Is the question of ROTC on campus a "political" or an "academic...
...Federal Reserve Board moved again last week to curtail the credit supply by proposing reserve requirements for Eurodollars. Board members want to stem the flood of those dollars that banks have been importing from European branches by the billions and then lending out. The Federal Reserve has misread the economy twice in the past three years and has prematurely expanded credit. It is not likely to do so again until the signs are unmistakably clear that inflation has been reversed. The latest readings of the consumer price index and the leading indicators suggest that what the Federal Reserve...
Price said last night that he misread a notice for the hearings and thought that the hearings would begin at 9:30 a.m., rather than 9 a.m. "But I would have missed an interesting discussion if I had gotten there on time," he added...
...result was an 8-lb. boy named Thomas Knack, whose coming was no cause for celebration in the Knack household. The husband is a low-wage railroad worker already supporting five children. He blamed the local pharmacist, who had misread the handwriting on Frau Knack's prescription, for the birth of Thomas. Arguing that the error would strain the family budget, the Knacks took Pharmacy Owner Hans Reimer to court to recover damages...