Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Literature shouldn't be mistaken for an exact description of the human condition or an agent for promoting morality, he adds...
...Sadly, Greenblatt is mistaken. First, the movie was called "Shakespeare in Love," not "Shakespeare at Work." Greenblatt has a bit too much faith in the American public if he actually thinks that Shakespeare's peerless talent drew hoards of theatergoers rather than the movie's tragic plot...
...mistaken premise behind the student center is that Harvard students have the time, or interest, in being social. In reality, we don't want to hang out unless there's a productive sense of accomplishment in doing so. We don't want to party. What we really want to do is study-study all the time, in all sorts of kinky positions, with our closest friends. Give Harvard a new student center and what will people do? They will bring their sourcebooks there...
...elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast; and not even the houses or the Depression have bridged that...
...then there's the tendency to glorify the inglorious. Too often, through the lens of Black History Month, the Black Panthers begin to resemble the Twelve Apostles, and disreputable figures like Paul Robeson, a prominent actor and Stalinist during the Cold War, are mistaken for American heroes...