Word: mistakenness
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...Richard Nixon. TerHorst wrote that his old boss-and good friend still-has proved too "heavyhanded" in many of his major moves, including the Nixon pardon, the Mayaguez affair and the shakeup. He has acted, terHorst wrote, as though he feared that "anything less than full force might be mistaken as a sign of weakness or timidity. When the man stamps, he stamps hard...
...that struck Kennedy's neck. He testified he heard a shot, turned to his right to look at Kennedy, could not see him, and began turning back toward his left before he was hit. The commission lawyers believe that Connally, like so many witnesses to the events, was mistaken. He may have heard a shot before he was hit, they say, but perhaps it was the shot that missed both men. They note that Connally did not even know he had been hit in the wrist and thigh until he awoke from surgery the next...
Deadpan parodists work perilously close to their targets. If they miscalculate, they may be mistaken for the real thing. But if they maintain just enough distance, they can cause the real thing to be mistaken for them. This explains why half the shows on radio and TV nowadays sound suspiciously like Bob & Ray spoofs. In their 29 years as a comedy team - mostly on radio, with excursions into TV and Broadway - Bob Elliott, 52, and Ray Goulding, 53, have rarely misjudged that ironic remove. As a result, newscasts, soap operas, man-in-the-street interviews, sports features and public service...
...Ingber actually did experience the concert, then her review of Mr. Stulberg was motivated by simple kindness. This, I suggest, is detrimental to your--or any--isolated academic environment. Such unwarranted flattery can only help to reinforce unhealthy or mistaken practices. All too soon will Mr. Stulberg discover the harsh and objective realities of the outside world. As a reviewer and a former reviewee, I would respectfully suggest that your reviewing and editorial staff understand that honest criticism of unhealthy traits, when used properly, can be an enhancement of the academic society and the learning experience. --Charles Carner
...followers of Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's new militant Jewish thrust at Harvard isn't really all that militant after all--or so he thinks. Mr. Epstein doesn't even consider religious behavior as part of a larger matrix of concerns called "ethnic." He is, of course, quite mistaken, though in his error is a measure of his low-profile approach to the new Jewish militancy--an approach with which I have sympathy. Yet Mr. Epstein remains somewhat in error. I have several comments on this...