Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free speech are going to be enormously better than they were in his years at Leningrad. "In my own judgement this institute will improve the life of many Iranians, maybe all Iranians. If it were appearing to me that my calculation about its ability to do so are mistaken, then I'll withdraw. And," he adds with a slight smile, "I wish I could find a university like this in the Soviet Union...
...article has "mistaken the problems of private higher education across the country as the problems of Harvard. He singled out one institution and blasted it unthinkingly," the letter added...
Daly also says I went to California five years ago when Chavez's organizing efforts began to attract national attention. Here, too, he is mistaken. My career in journalism took me to California in 1952, and I have been there ever since...
...other modes, Disch shows how terror can arise through the disturbances of ordinary life. In The Asian Shore, a young American scholar living in Istanbul keeps bumping into a bedraggled Turkish woman who seems to know him. It is, he decides at first, a simple case of mistaken identity-until some frightening events make him suspect that the mistake is his own. On a sunny morning, the brother and sister in Let Us Hasten Quickly to the Gate of Ivory try to visit their parents' graves and succumb to "subdued, also meditative horror" when they realize that they...
...editor of the weekly Oklahoma Observer. With his paunch and pendulous second chin, his hair parted down the middle, gravy stains on his tie, a beer bottle or a container of coffee in one hand and a badly chewed but unlighted cigar in the other, Harris can hardly be mistaken for a limousine liberal. "The difference between me and McGovern," he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, "is that I never tell people that they ought to do something because it's morally right. I show how it's in their own self-interest. My dad used to listen...