Word: mistakenness
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...autobiography Self-Consciousness, Updike recounts his earliest memory of stuttering, when a bully nicknamed him "Ostrich." "[It was] a nickname I did not think I deserved," Updike writes, "and a fear of being misunderstood or mistaken for somebody else has accompanied the impdiment ever since...
...remote control, almost certainly lay with Captain Rogers. He is commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, the guided-missile cruiser that shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf last July 3, killing all 290 people aboard. Rogers gave the order to fire missiles at the plane in the mistaken belief that it was an Iranian jet fighter attacking his ship...
...guerrillas sound determined to fight unless a newly elected government proves unexpectedly willing to reopen negotiations. Warns Cirilo: "We have a genuine desire for peace. But that should not be mistaken for weakness." Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top five comandantes, agrees. "If the military says no to our plan, then that indicates their intention of defeating us militarily," he says. "That would oblige us to respond, and the product would be a deepening of the war." Roberto, a veteran E.R.P. combatant is more direct: "If the elections are held...
Albert Hsia, in his editorial of March 9, 1989, shows an intolerance towards minority organizations whose purposes are primarily social. He has confused the desirable goal of integration of public institutions and activities with a mistaken expectation of a fully integrated private social life. A free society should move towards equal access in the public arena, but only an authoritarian society would restrict its members from associating with one another according to personal inclination...
...Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, bar none, remains one of the most beloved operas of any composer. This comedy of mismatched lovers and mistaken identities contains some of the most uplifting and well-crafted of Mozart's music. And, thanks to some superb singing and character acting, along with a solid orchestra performance under the direction of Music Director Benjamin Loeb, the Lowell House Opera's Marriage of Figaro more than lives up to the ambitious musical challenge of putting on a full-scale opera in a house dining hall...