Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity that the prosy piece called "Beauty" had to appear on the first page, for it is clearly the worst thing in the issue. Were it not so devilishly earnest, it could easily be mistaken for parody. It attempts one of those cosmic definitions which one rarely finds outside of undergraduate writing, and which result in embarrassing mediocrity, or worse. Editor (as the author James Robinson signs himself) uses hackneyed and inconsistent metaphor, contradicts himself twice along the way, and even denies the reader the pleasure of a well-turned phrase...
...week returned to the nation's capital. His trip had been a smashing success-from his viewpoint. For behind him Anastas Mikoyan left scores of well-meaning Americans who, failing to realize that he had not backed up an inch on any basic Kremlin position (see box), had mistaken his warm smile as tokening a real thaw in the cold...
According to Kishimoto, Shintoists are decreasing because the Shinto state religion once became associated with Nationalism, and Christianity's God was "tragically mistaken" in translation for the Shinto deity...
...spatted with Sinatra and "drove off in a Huff [Nov. 10]." It was not a Huff, but a Dudgeon. It is easy to understand how this mistake was made. It was not one of the old-model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time...
...that the author told her to say that reality and illusion is the theme of his play. This explains why the characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss has an eye toward being some sort of mellow Pirandello, but though he uses all the standard reality-illusion devices, it is hard to tell what he is trying...