Word: mistakenness
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...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...
...college certainly was. After all, my parents had met in college, as had many of my friends' parents. I resolved that my future bride must be somewhere amongst those mobs of people moving into the Yard. Two-and-a-half years later, I must report that I was sorely mistaken. Of course, retrospectively I shouldn't be all that surprised...
...easy to see, however, that Dean Thompson is mistaken...
...more clarity for the projected slides. One by one, we drop off to Nyquil-land, a beautifully choreographed piece of work accompanied by the monotonous drone of the self-absorbed instructor, with the occasional snore adding to the background vocals. The room becomes still, sleep has once again been mistaken for rapt attention...