Word: mistakenly
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...related way, the latest primary campaign and convention--for all the latter's stability, widely mistaken for conservatism--continued a gradual power shift of some importance, masked by the "good government" rhetorical appeal of Carter, who all along has sought support on the basis of his personal qualities rather than issues. The old AFLCIO labor bosses are on the outs, having supported Jackson; and the more liberal union leaderships, like those of the Auto Workers, State, County and Municipal workers, National Education Association, and the coal miners, have grown in power, having backed Carter and at least partially responsible...
When Gluck's opera was originally published in Vienna in 1769, he wrote a preface outlining his plan to overcome "the mistaken vanity of singers." his alternative: "I have striven to restrict music to its true office of serving poetry by means of expression and by following the situations of the story, without interrupting the action or stifling it with a useless superfluity of ornaments." Although Italian prima donnas pay little attention to their words, Gluck heaped praises on the "heartfelt language" of his librettist, Ranieri Calzabigi, who also collaborated on Gluck's first big success, Orfeo...
...Coherent!" snorted Gelsomino. "I suppose you saw what your man Fanfani said the other day at Grosseto: that the Christian Democrats may have been mistaken in not denying the Communists their freedom and not trying to outlaw the party. He's gone crazy...
Feeling the lack of an autonomous American image, the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier has long looked for a way to rediscover the New World. Born in Cuba of French ancestry, and for years a political exile in Paris, he has always known how mistaken Europe and America were about each other. His unique perspective has influenced him, perhaps defensively, to explore in his writing the tensions between European assumptions and American reality...
Could Raffel have been so mistaken...