Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murphy also raised the point that there weremany victims to Lee's crime, includingticket-buyers who unwittingly funded Lee'sspending sprees, skaters who donated their timeunder the mistaken impression that they werehelping the Jimmy Fund and, finally, the childcancer patients for whom the money was intended...
Burnt Whole's set-up is a case of mistaken form-and-content parallel. The sterilization of mass memory is much more skilfully represented in specific pieces. The ICA's surgical ambiance serves only to deaden their effect. In the documentary, the art is more powerfully arranged on an exposed brick wall...
Some of the turmoil it gets into is the fault of mistaken reporters, heavy-handed editors or sloppy proofers. And some of it is the fault of students and administrators who don't agree with a given story because they're too biased about the issue, or because the opposing side was given any play at all. "Crimeds," especially reporters, put up with a lot of rudeness, abruptness, hostility and interference from the people they attempt to cover...
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and his allies were mistaken and misguided in their price-control posturing. Rather than pushing for a local exemption from the abolition of rent control, the camp should have lobbied for an transition measure like the one that was enacted. This position would have complied with the will of Massachusetts voters. At the same time, it would have accommodated those members of the community who have depended on the system that is being phased...
...argument ignores the fact that, unlike the Nazi analogy, the military's policies regarding service by homosexuals are embedded in and are a minor, perhaps mistaken, product of a flourishing democratic process and vigorous constitutionalism that goes further to protect all minorities and every liberty than any other regime known to history. Gestures of defiance or disassociation made against such a regime are rarely justified, particularly if those making the gesture pay no price whatever for it while imposing all the costs on others who may not agree with them. In this the objecting members of the Faculty are quite...