Word: misreadings
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...hesitate to take issue with so eminent a Shakespearean as Mark Van Doren, but his statement that the Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...
...that a Haitian Revolutionary Force may be training in Cuba. Whether this is so or not, those who line up on the side of change in Haiti will have five million good reasons to feel confident. Those who oppose it by upholding Duvalier in the name of progress have misread the lessons of Cuba. Duvalier is every bit as good a friend as Fulgencio Batista. And he will leave us with enemies as resentful and recalcitrant as Fidel Castro...
...ways during recent weeks. President Kennedy has expressed his concern that the U.S. citizenry is not yet prepared to make the sacrifices and take the risks required by the cold war. That concern can only have helped shape his policies. But there is a danger that the President has misread the U.S. mind-and that the American people are in fact more than ready and more than willing to take whatever action is necessary in the international struggle against Communism. Last week, after sampling public opinion in their areas, TIME correspondents across the U.S. reported two major facts as emerging...
...statement [May 18] that death, like birth, need not be left to God, seems to overlook the fact that God never issued a commandment, ''Thou shalt not assist at birth." I'm scurrying now to my Old Testament to reread the commandment I once misread-you know, the one that goes, "Thou shalt not kill, without the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee...
With a blush that matched the pink door of her office, Lois, a pretty, 32-year-old divorcee, wrote to everyone who got the release, blamed all on her handwriting rather than on the typist who misread her scribbled "adventurous" for "adulterous." Last week, despite, and/or because of Lois' too curved pitch, the Cabana was packed to its plush eaves with adventurous VIP first-nighters. Lois could take little solace from the smash opening; the Cabana's owners had let her contract lapse. Said she: "It's a good thing I'm in business for myself...