Word: misreadings
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...Massachusetts Democrats were courting youth and the Kennedy Style at the convention, but they misread both. Youth (if one can talk about "Youth" at all) is earnest and idealistic by choice, but it is inarticulate through inexperience. And President Kennedy, if awkward in speaking style, was hardly ever awkward in phrasing or thought. At his most lucid moments he made articulate questions and tentative answers out of vague popular feelings...
There are aspects of the Nieman program which could be profitably altered, as with any program. Ardery's article, however, misread completely where the program stands today and what it has meant in the past. Hodding Carter III Nieman Fello
Such operations involved casualties, and this is, of course, the main argument against our continued involvement. But to contend shat an enclave policy involving "a small but steady drain of casualties" for a number of years would be "more acceptable to American public opinion than escalation." is to misread American politics. No prolonged war is likely to be popular; but clearly the most difficult situation to sustain would be one in which people were still getting killed after most of the land had been given to the Viet Cong, and eventual defeat was a certainty...
...referring to the idea that this was a "dull campaign"-that ridiculous notion that became a clichs so quickly last fall as newspaper editorial writers watched this extraordinary battle taking place before their eyes and misread it. If Mr. White goes through with his project of writing these books for twelve more years, it still seems probable that 1964 will be the volume most looked back to by future Americans. They will look and ask, as perhaps we ourselves will in a quarter of a century, how to explain this Goldwater phenomenon, whether it appears by then...
...Misread Mood. At the crisis point of Windsor's life 30 years ago, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin harshly gave the King the choice of abdicating and marrying Wallis or giving her up and remaining King. Winston Churchill took up the King's cause in the Commons, insisting that the government accept a morganatic marriage.* But Churchill misread the mood of the Establishment. His efforts were hotly resented in Parliament, and the Times thundered that the woman the King wanted to marry was not fit to be Queen...