Word: mistakenness
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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...
Film noir is more than a lighting style. It's a seedy, cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice. Director John Dahl gets it all right in his mean, hilarious tale of a drifter (Nicolas Cage) mistaken for a contract killer. The title town is off all the moral maps, and so -- deliriously, invigoratingly -- is this lowbrow, low-budget assault...
...movie Allen plays Walter Hollander, a New Jersey caterer vacationing in Eastern Europe along with his wife and daughter. They are mistaken for spies, and take refuge in an American embassy being run temporarily by the ambassador's bumbling son (Michael J. Fox). Despite its dated cold war plot, the 1966 play shows that Allen even at this early stage was a skilled farceur. The Hollanders' presence in the embassy causes mounting chaos involving a visiting emir, a fugitive priest who does magic and a stuffy embassy official who gets conked on the head and thinks he's the Wright...
...speech on academic efficacy, Howard said the concept of "innate" intelligence--like the theory espoused in The Bell Curve, a controversial book at the center of recent nationwide debate--was mistaken and dangerous to personal development...