Word: mistakenness
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...simple assessment of Sadat is therefore likely to be mistaken. Dozens of visiting Americans were charmed by him. But he was also aloof and reflective and withdrawn. Like many men of power, he had an almost carnal relationship with authority. He could hold his own with small talk, but on deeper acquaintance it became clear that it bored him. He much preferred to spend his idle time in solitary reflection in his restless peregrinations around his beloved country...
...that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken notion that Mies van der Rohe contrived the 1958 Seagram Building as "worker housing, utterly nonbourgeois." If Wolfe cannot see what august luxury that Grid contains, he literally does not know how to see architecture...
...forgotten either. After 1957, Britain lifted the ban on salvage operations that had been in effect because of the ship's war grave status. Several costly searches for the cruiser were made by British, Norwegian and Russian companies to no avail, since both British and German records had mistaken the wreck's actual location. But last week a team of civilian divers was laboriously bringing to the surface 23-lb. gold bars taken from the cruiser's ammunition room. It quickly became one of the most lucrative deep-sea salvage missions ever undertaken. By week...
...Norton next month, reflects the breadth of interests his friends mention. The book, The Mismeasure of Man, concerns the efforts by modern man to quantify human intelligence--from the 19th century study of craniometry to current I.Q. testing. The attempt to measure intelligence, Gould argues, implies "a subtle and mistaken theory of limits whose essence is that the differences among people spring from genetic inheritance." The foray into the controversial terrain of intelligence testing reveals Gould's life-long belief in the indivisibility of politics and science...
...soccer team, they draw little fan interest. But whether you're watching the crew boats--Cambridge's most popular way of doing nothing--jogging, or sleeping, it is wise to do it outside in this area's most beautiful season. Intramural tackle football among the Houses will never be mistaken for the NFL, but many people enjoy it a lot. Check out a game...