Word: mistakenly
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...that institution--the Federal Government--that New Yorkers quite correctly look for aid. President Ford, despite his foolhardy rhetoric, mistaken economics and quite un-Republican belief that welfare checks are more important than bond coupons, is not entirely misguided. Clearly, to give New York outright the help it requires would simply encourage other cities to take the same route of overspending. The waste in New York's budget is indefensible, and no-strings-attached aid will not help the city excise the triple cancer of patronage jobs, greedy municipal unions and a welfare system that is well-nigh...
...followers of Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's new militant Jewish thrust at Harvard isn't really all that militant after all--or so he thinks. Mr. Epstein doesn't even consider religious behavior as part of a larger matrix of concerns called "ethnic." He is, of course, quite mistaken, though in his error is a measure of his low-profile approach to the new Jewish militancy--an approach with which I have sympathy. Yet Mr. Epstein remains somewhat in error. I have several comments on this...
...both Avigdor and Hadass, Yentl reveals to Avigdor that she is not a man and files a bill of divorcement so that her two dearest friends may marry. Even for a fable, that is a little too fabulous. Shakespeare was able to get away with the man-woman mistaken identity gambit because he imbued it with humor, poetry and a sly fencing of the sexes. But that is not the case here, where the prevailing mood is one of folkish piety...
...often mistaken for other nostrums of the '60s and '70s, but it has little or no relationship to most of them. For example, Esalen, which inspired the encounter movement in the '60s, in cludes such therapy as nude communal bathing and rolfing?deep-probing, painful massages that are supposed to release the unawakened consciousness. Arica, a nationwide spiritual organi zation, searches for "the Essential Self through, among other things, Egyptian gymnastics and African dances. Meditation is only incidental to Arica, and involves concentrating on the plan ets Jupiter and Saturn and the colors blue and black. Est, a San Francisco...
Died. Max Wylie, 71, writer, former television and advertising executive and father of Janice Wylie, a 21-year-old Newsweek copy girl whose murder in 1963 in an affluent Manhattan neighborhood received wide publicity and led to a famous mistaken identity trial; by his own hand, of a gunshot wound; in Fredericksburg, Va. Although Wylie, the younger brother of the late novelist Philip Wylie, wrote a number of mediocre novels and other works, none of his literary efforts brought him as much public exposure as the overwhelming amount of misfortune he encountered. Five years after the murder of his daughter...