Word: mistakenness
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...decision to free them. Speaking with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House last week, Jimmy Carter could not hide his chagrin over the seemingly endless cycle of raised expectations and dashed hopes. Said Carter: "Any prediction of a favorable response from Iran has always been mistaken." His hunch? "Wait and see." It has been that way now for more than 400 days...
...development in Brazil, Muller's favorite example of this type of cooperation, provides a frightening case of successful enterprise but mistaken priorities. The government there provided sufficient bait to attract U.S. automoblie manfuacturers and other multinationals. This bias in Brazil toward export-oriented industrial and urban development significantly diluted relief to the rural poor there. Similarly, Muller notes that after years of stangation the Indian steel industry has become an exporter. But at what cost to the millions starving in India's villages and cities? Although his global market plan may provide a boon to the United States and other...
...YEOMEN OF THE GUARD is a Gilbert and Sullivan curveball. It skips along in familiar G & S style: the mistaken identities, the thwarted romances, the brutally clever patter, all set to a jolly, stirring score. Yet throughout the operetta there runs an uncharacteristic current of grandeur and sobriety--just when the final scene seems to be resolving itself with happy Gilbertian expedience, the leading character staggers onto the stage and dies a prolonged, hideous death...
...report that our new show That's My Line [Oct. 13] is a remake of our classic game show What's My Line. You also report that That's My Line "fizzled." You are mistaken on both counts...
Greg Stahl wrote A.T.C. in William Alfred's playwrighting class here at Harvard, so it is in parts, as one might expect, somewhat jejune. There are dialogue deserts of vast extent, some of the structure is mistaken or awkward, and the characterization can be shallow. This said, it should be added that pieces of A.T.C. are so startlingly good, so funny and true to life and viscerally engaging, that it is a joy: there are brilliant flecks of mica in the granatic escarp...