Word: misreads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course being foolish First. Tolstoy's faith in art was based in Christian humanism, in the belief that every man had basic principles which could be appealed to by the sincere and talented artist Fiedler, on the other hand hopes for some mass tribal evolution. And he misread even the processes by which an audience experiences television in order to buttress his argument. Do people care all that deeply about what they see on the tube? If they do aren't they first primed by commercial manipulators who bombard them with verbal publicity? And even if they participate en masse...
...Dubuffet reporductions on the walls," that is just plain laughable in its ignorance. The artist's name happens to be Bernard Buffet, he enjoys some small amount of fame, and the one Buffet we have is an original. It seems the eyes that mistakenly reported oaken walls everywhere also misread the signature of an artist they were unfamiliar with...
...visitors to Hanoi have been surprised by the attitudes of North Vietnamese leaders, who seem to be convinced that the same antiwar genie that toppled Lyndon Johnson in 1968 can be rubbed back to life and turned against Richard Nixon this year. That suggests that, much as the U.S. misread the North Vietnamese when the massive American intervention in Indochina began, the North Vietnamese may now be misreading...
Neither childish retribution, misread signs, weekend anxiety nor the absence of 32 Senators can justify such a colossal blunder...
...Opinionated" is the proper word to describe Dean Claude Welch's "critical appraisal" of graduate studies in religion [Oct. 18]. His categorization of the University of California, Santa Barbara program is based on prejudgment supplemented by flimsy, outdated, inaccurate and misread evidence. Dean Welch did not visit this campus, nor did he systematically discuss the religious studies program with anyone on this campus. Apparently he was content to fabricate his dubious thunderbolts while enthroned on Berkeley's Olympian heights...