Word: mistakenness
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There has always been an enormous imperial drive from Russia. To think that this is only a consequence of Communist ideology is just mistaken. The greatest periods of expansion of the Russian empire happened under the tsars. Stalin was, so to speak, rather modest at the end of World
...really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing. . . Knock-kneed, droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong...
...more permissive than they actually are. His explanation for this is that Mead's only source was what the teenage girls she was studying told her, and they probably exaggerated and lied to her both to tease her and out of shyness. Freeman also concludes that Mead was mistaken in believing that adolesence in Samoa is without trauma. He cites statistics showing that teenage delinquency in Samoa can run as much as ten times that of some western cultures, the peak year for a youth's first conviction being at 16 years...
...both must be considered in accounting for human behavior. He advocates the currently popular "view of human evolution in which the genetic and exogenetic are distinct but interacting parts of a single system." Freeman seems to believe that the old nature-nurture debate is over, but he is unfortunately mistaken. The opinion that the genes dictate and determine all continues to be expressed in psychology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology...
...story in yesterday's Crimson may have given readers the mistaken impression that Harvard Real Estate was opposed to a Rent Control Board decision that savings resulting from energy-conservation improvements at 9-13A Ware Street should be passed along to tenants of that building...