Word: mistakenness
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...play's biggest role is that of Viola, who spends most of her time disguised as the boy Cesario, whence all the mistaken identity. Such stage disguises were common in Elizabethan times, since all female roles were played by young boys owing to the ban on actresses. And Shakespeare happened to have two extraordinarily gifted boy actors in his company at the turn of the century...
...ready. While a dazed audience watched helplessly, the firemen made for the smoke-filled pit and came within a split second of dousing both crowd and orchestra. Shaw admitted to confusion. "As the smoke cleared and firemen in full asbestos regalia appeared, it became apparent that what I had mistaken in the din of battle as a premature entry of chimes was the smell-all, tell-all alarm that did not know its brass from the principal bass...
Even at last year's NCAA finals, Coach Edgar Stowell said yesterday, "If I'm not mistaken, 7 ft. would have cleared the field." But in 1974, 7 ft. turned out to be nothing special...
...faith nor prophet of new orders, nothing so grand as that. His role in society is more like a dredging engineer, whose job it is to keep channels free and clear." He will not always succeed because "imperfection is the journalist's working climate." And newsmen are mistaken if they expect universal applause even when they do the dredging well. There are always those who like the silt...
...member of the History Department's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and of the sub-committee which had special responsibility for drafting the Committee's proposal for a revision of the General Examination in History, I should like to correct a mistaken impression which some readers may get from the April 18 Crimson story on that proposal...