Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychology, since the Greeks, has been one of the dramatist's most popular subjects. "The Ox-Bow Incident" is a movie that depicts very accurately and, in terms of American frontier life, what havoe a frenzied crowd can wreak. The picture describes a lynching in the old West--the mistaken lynching of three innocent men by a mob too hungry for revenge to try the men fairly, Because it deals with the mob's crime realistically, because it avoids the melodrama that manages to ruin so many westerns, "The Ox-Bow Incident" is an excellent American movie...
...Primitive is written in that self-deceiving and deceptive style whose weakness will be mistaken by some for strength. It is clumsy and naive, but devotees of the unspoiled may call it simple and homespun and applaud when Feikema challenges (unsuccessfully) the tyranny of grammar. He has the sort of poetic gift that gets in the way of a good prose, and his recipe for flavoring his concoction is "salt-and-peppering the whole with many a dark adjective and adverb"-not to mention verbs. When Thurs wanted to get from one place to another, he "moosed," "giraffed" or "cameled...
...saints? A great deal, suggests top-rank Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, now teaching at Princeton, in the current issue of the quarterly Review of Politics. "The genuine, absolute atheist, with all his sincerity and devotion," he concludes, "is but an abortive saint and, at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist...
...mention of segregation and equal rights in the same breath seems to me a mistake. And the mistaken impression that it is impossible to have both at the same time is one of the biggest causes of present racial troubles. If I divide my apple with a Negro but refuse to let him bite off my half, I give him an equal right but at the same time I keep segregation. I can't believe an intelligent Negro would object or feel discriminated against...
...witness, with a lawyer's skill with words. Were there conflicts between previous testimony and his story now? He pleaded a faulty previous recollection. He had "no independent recollection" of some points. Of one admitted confusion in his previous testimony, he said coolly: "One could always possibly be mistaken...