Word: mistakenness
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This case of mistaken identity started two years ago when Vidal was approached with the idea for the film by Producer Franco Rossellini. Vidal agreed to write a screenplay, and he introduced Rossellini to Guccione, who, with a logic Descartes would have envied, realized that where there are mad Roman Emperors there must also be orgies-along with big grosses at the box office and an endless supply of nude picture spreads for Penthouse...
...this is perhaps why Swanberg, even while admitting Thomas's flaws, so clearly respects and admires Thomas, a man of, in a phrase he once used to characterize a friend, "uncommon common decency." For although he was sometimes mistaken, occasionally naive, Thomas served as America's conscience, educating and reminding her citizens of their government's failure to live up to her ideals in a way no marxist-idealogue could have. If Thomas's is a history of failure, it is less of a story of personal flaws than of the failure of the American political system...
Whitlock, who took over as master of Dudley House and inherited the masters apartment at 53 Dunster Street this year (which has a yard that many students have mistaken as a recycling center for beer cans) says he has never seen so much drinking at Harvard parties...
...idea that he was a radical was quite mistaken," Freund said. "Actually, he was quite conservative. He was concerned with the quality of justice. He worshipped everything English, most of all the English legal system...
...were divided between our literary vocation and an urge to save the world from Fascism. The impulse to act was not mistaken. But the action we took may not have been of the right kind. It was for the most part the half-and-half action of people divided between their artistic and public conscience, and unable to fuse...