Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer Kennedy made a Senate speech calling for the U.S. to take an active stand for Algerian freedom from France, and he got an editorial roasting (TIME, July 15) for his pains. Deeply concerned. Kennedy called his father, then in France, and wondered aloud if he had not been mistaken. Replied Joe Kennedy: "You lucky mush. You don't know it and neither does anyone else, but within a few months everyone is going to know just how right you were on Algeria...
...Nazi-Soviet pact, and in his successful novels (Citizen Tom Paine, The Unvanquished) he had already tried to hoist the Red flag retroactively over the American Revolution. He "saw the Communists as the bravest and most skillful fighters for man's freedom." Now he says, "I was mistaken," but it took him nearly 14 years-until Khrushchev's mid-1956 "secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust"-to realize his mistake. His fumbling book of remorse and recantation is pervaded by pathos. "Why?" he keeps asking in hurt, "say-it-ain't-so, Joe" tones...
...laughin' matter. Your reporter hasn't paid the price of a haircut lately. No one in his right mind could have had a grudge against sweet, mellow Mr. Anastasia. Umberto must have been mistaken for the head of the local barbers' union...
...Brando, is Playwright Tennessee Williams, who cannot seem to accept the fact that Marlon is not at all like brutal Stanley Kowalski, the slobbish lecher played by Brando on both Broadway and the screen in Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando's claim: a clear case of mistaken identity. Mumbled Marlon to Truman: "Tennessee has made a fixed association between me and Kolwalski. I mean, we're friends and he knows that as a person I am just the opposite of Kowalski, who was everything I'm against-totally insensitive, crude, cruel. But still Tennessee...
Among the perennials, Benedict Fitzgerald '08 is probably the hardiest. Most people have lost count of his unsuccessful runs for office. He is running for City Council, but his only chance for victory is through a sympathy vote or a case of mistaken identity, in which voters thought he was the Mayor's crony, James Fitzgerald. On the CCA side, there are three former perennials parading behind the standard of respectability. Gaetan Aiello and Robert Horan, School Committee candidates, are at least one-time losers, and Witold Pladziewicz, owner of an East Cambridge meat market and a City Council candidate...