Word: mistakenness
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...student refers to Harvard as the "Vatican" of Cambridge. The University's red-brick buildings are often mistaken for ivory towers by students who find all their needs satisfied by Harvard's own resources...
...within the Arab world Sadat was bringing about a new sense of fraternity, particularly during the past six months. He regained the support of King Feisal, who was said to feel chagrined that his advice to the Egyptian President about ousting the Russians had been mistaken. Libya's hotheaded strongman Muammar Gaddafi (TIME cover, April 2) wanted to unite with Egypt immediately; Sadat persuaded him instead to accept a gradualist approach to the merger (partly as a result, Gaddafi has sulked and done little during the current fighting...
...brought to American politics, Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike have seized upon the vice presidential nomination of their colleague of 25 years, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford Jr. (R-Mich.), as if he indeed offered "the new beginning" the president has promised. Predicting swift confirmation, they have mistaken a hasty and politically expedient choice for a wise...
...make sure, Grass invents one, a "Dr. Doubt," a Danzig schoolteacher, who sits out World War II in a cellar, collecting snails and falling in love, among other activities. He says: "I know more now. Hesitation comes more easily." Grass's middle-aged snail wisdom might easily be mistaken for Doubt's. At 45, Grass is too wise to be possessed by any one credo. Yet Grass cannot stay in his cellar while history's hobnailed boots march overhead...
...referring to recent criticism of him as a subsidized apologist for the Soviet regime, he declared: "I am a writer, never was and never will be an official representative of my country." The week before, the tall, skinny poet had paid a visit to the Philippines, where he was mistaken for an American tourist by two U.S. sailors who wanted to know what state he was from. Said he: "I'm from Russia. It isn't an American state...