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Third, in order to correct the mistaken proposal of the McCree Committee-the only recommendation of the Committee I question-that the DuBois Institute be organized on an interuniversity basis, it is necessary to stipulate in faculty legislation that the Institute will be solely Harvard controlled and should be organized, in terms of its governing board, on a university-wide basis. The better feature will guarantee the DuBois Institute that range and quality of academic skills without which it cannot succeed...
That fifties Catholic liberalism was mistaken is obvious. But there were those who saw its flaws then-Left critics like C. Wright Mills, and to a lesser extent, Adiai Stevenson and Gene MaCarthy (who noted that he was both more Catholic and more liberal than Kennedy),-though such people were hard to find. Similarly, the Right also saw how mistaken the liberals were, although often for the wrong reasons. What is important, however, is that many of Kennedy's advocates have learned from their failures, while conservatives (one thinks of Richard Nixon) chose to pick up Kennedy's torch long...
DILLARD IS CAREFUL to point out that black along, which is often mistaken for Black English, bears no real relationship to the dialect's grammatical structure. Words such as 'chick' for woman, 'squares' for cigarettes, 'hog' for Cadillac, and 'bread' for money are simply colorful additions to Black English and have little to do with the substance of the dialect. In fact, mistaking black slang as Black English leads to the conclusion that the dialect is merely a corruption of English. For example, 'bread' for money is actually a Cockney idiom...
PLAYS LIKE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL have made mistaken identity and its ramifications a classic comic theme. The dichotomy between appearances and realities usually opens all sorts of possibilities for subtle and not-so-subtle irony, and Nikolai Gogol's mid-nineteenth century comedy is no exception...
...title role as an inspector general-Petersburg dandy. He has a less and hungry look appropriate to an official in the Russian bureaucracy, but his hunger is for entertainment (or, at one point, food), rather than power, and his foppish manner belies initial impressions. Nourished by the town's mistaken flattery, Khlestakov's age expends as his imperious manner is fed as he deludes himself by the lies he concocts to increase his importance in the eyes of the locals...