Word: mistakenness
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...reaching their verdict, the jurors said that TIME's mistaken report that the information was actually part of Appendix B "aggravated" the defamatory interpretation they read into the disputed paragraph. But the judge had agreed with TIME on this point and had told the jury that the alleged libel did not center on the content of the appendix but rather on the substance of what TIME's paragraph said--namely, that Sharon discussed revenge with the Phalangists before they were sent into the camps...
...should not vote for politicians who favored free choice on abortion. Although it noted that all abortions are tragedies, the ad challenged "statements of recent Popes and of the Catholic hierarchy (that) have condemned the direct termination of prenatal life as morally wrong in all instances. There is the mistaken belief in American society that this is the only legitimate Catholic position. In fact, a diversity of opinions regarding abortion exists among committed Catholics...
...leisurely and sinuous in its flow as the Ganges, sometimes crashing through rapids, more often meandering into tributaries, Jewel does on occasion get bogged down in its own complexities. In the middle episodes, when the action closes in on Layton and four other mem-sahibs, the show could be mistaken for a provincial soap opera, and a brackish one at that. Sometimes too it parades a kind of sincerity that teeters on melodrama. Symbols are spelled out, symmetries underlined, characters displayed with embarrassing nakedness. Merrick never tires of proclaiming his lower-class origins, and Kumar commits such lines...
...evident silliness of such messages aside, the danger of this school is that the too-systematic quest for an abstract goal can lead one from mere intellectual confusion to damnable, personal corruption. It is through such hunting, so often mistaken for the pursuit of happiness, that cultured or half religious people are transformed into mere snobs, feminists to shrews, athletes to books, and scientists to subversives. Lasch has metamorphosed from a would-be thinker into a rather loose writer...
...Nicaragua respectively assailed and praised the court's decision last week, both countries continued to accuse each other of preparing for outright warfare. The U.S. claimed that it had sighted six Soviet ships laden with arms and bound for Nicaragua. Perhaps chastened by mistaken allegations last month that Soviet MiG-21 fighter planes were being unloaded in the Nicaraguan port of Corinto, the Administration did not commit itself to specifying what arms the ships were carrying. But President Reagan warned again last week that if sophisticated Soviet aircraft are sent to Central America, "this is something we cannot...