Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers who may suspect at this point that Author Rand's intention is satire could not be more mistaken...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3--With the question of withdrawal of federal troops from Little Rock still unsolved, President Eisenhower at his news conference today said he believes Faubus is "mistaken in what he is doing, and is doing a disservice to the city and to his state." He reiterated his demand for "satisfactory and unequivocal assurances" that order would be maintained...
...Page One editorial, the Blade explained that it avoids racial identifications in crime stories because 1) "a crime is the same regardless of who commits it." and 2) "such identification is often confused and mistaken." From last week's scare, the Blade was able to add a new argument for holding to its policy. "As all of us have seen," said the editorial, racial identification in a crime story "clearly plays into the hands of those who would stir up animosity...
Beneath all the froth is a superb, incisive character study of the two men. Bourvil's slow mind can concentrate only on moving the meat. But to Gabin, a famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means of testing the cowardice of his countrymen and the wits of his enemies. After slipping their burden past one more peril, Gabin roars with immense self-appreciation: "This pig's making a genius out of me!" He unsuccessfully tries to persuade Bourvil to hijack their load...
...great jokester, with a neurotic's ability to charm a world he could not master. In 1835 he wrote what brilliant Novelist-Critic Vladimir Nabokov calls the greatest play in Russian. The Government Inspector. The conception, suggested to Gogol by Pushkin, was ingenious: a character is mistaken in a provincial town for an important government official, and the whole corrupt, incoherent Russian officialdom is exposed in apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought...