Word: mistakenness
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These earlier products of elite white colleges had, moreover, an infinitely more vicious and extensive pattern of racism to endure. And though today's blacks at white colleges use an anti-white rhetoric that claims a more onerous or devious confrontation with racism than before, this is a mistaken perception and many who hold it do so dishonestly, or at least as part of a fantasy of rebellion...
...most rational way of solving the "Huntington problem" would be to allow him to teach here, but for his students to challenge his theories and lectures in class, thus revealing to him to mistaken basis of his thought, which inevitably led us into Vietnam. However, undergraduates at this university seem quite docile in class, from what I have observed. They rarely challenge any professor's 'party line' lectures, as they are scared and too concerned about grades and getting into law or business or medical school. Thus, the Ad Hoc's flashy tactics are really a way of conveniently avoiding...
...bishops, and to the Roman clergy insisting on the need for "the great discipline of the church." In calling for prayer for the Camp David summit, he stated that God "is our Father; even more, God is our Mother." Attacking Marxist-hued "liberation theology," he said: "It is mistaken to state that political, economic and social liberation coincides with salvation in Jesus Christ, that ubi Lenin, ibi Jerusalem [where Lenin is, there also is Jerusalem...
...scientists thought they were putting superheat on the Carter Administration for more fusion funding, they were probably mistaken. John Deutch, the Department of Energy's research chief, pointedly noted that while the Princeton work was gratifying, it was not a "breakthrough." Thus the Administration remains tilted more toward conservation and coal, less toward advanced research, however exciting...
...Jimmy Carter thought that that would soothe A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, he was mistaken. Meany grumbled that the 6½% postal workers' settlement, rightly hailed by the Administration as an example of wage moderation, had been too low-and on hearing that, Carter flew into a rare rage. At a press conference, Marshall said that Meany's remarks had "personally disturbed" the President and that his stand could lead to "more inflationary demands." Meany's response was immediate: "I've called it as I saw it. I don't intend to change...