Word: mistakenness
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...paddle into this wrenching regimen, known politely as ballet class. Many are shoved by doting mommies and daddies with an atavistic sense of how young ladies are supposed to move. A single-minded few are driven by the demonic notion that they could, some day, be swans. Most are mistaken. Once in a great while though, the real thing comes along, and word rapidly spreads through one of the world's oldest permanent floating meritocracies. Leningrad hears it, and so do Stuttgart, Covent Garden and New York: a star is born who might, just might, be capable of being made...
...play has been switched to the nineteenth century, because Cooper feels it's a closer-to-home example of a corrupt society under a veneer of propriety such as that in which the play unfolds. Besides corruption, "Measure for Measure" deals with questions of power and politics, mistaken identity and the discovery of one's sexuality--a heady mixture, no doubt, no matter where it's set. At the Hasty Pudding Theater, 12 Holyoke Street, tonight through Sunday at 8, matinee Saturday at 2. Tickets at the Box Office...
...small number of people acted very irresponsibly and that is unfortunate," Steiner said, adding, "If they think they're serving the cause of black or white people in South Africa or anywhere, people are sadly mistaken...
While the Israelis may be right in asserting that the terrorist attack lends credence to their oft-voiced concerns about security, they are clearly mistaken if they believe any kind of military operation--even the creation of a six-mile buffer zone across an entire border--can enhance that security. More likely, the Israeli move will inspire further terrorist activity and a continuation of the cycle of violence. Hate just breeds hate. The guerillas cannot be bombed into submission--they will emerge yet again as promised, if not from the north then from other borders or in other ways...
Ionesco's stubborn refusal to align his art with the politics of these "engaged" critics and Party members had its consequences. Several months later, after seeing an untouched revival of The Chairs, the same critics who had previously lauded him now apologized for their mistaken praise. "They simply said the play was not worth seeing," says Gaetan. "He was told he no longer had the talent...