Word: mistakenness
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...programs, however desirable, cannot by themselves result in the early eradication of social injustice, discrimination, and prejudice. The elimination of social injustice depends not only on federal action but on state action, local action, and especially private, personal action. All four are needed. Overreliance on individual action clearly is mistaken. But overreliance on federal action is also mistaken. It can provide an excuse for those who wish to avoid needed state, local, personal and private action...
Your article of April 19 on the projected Cambridge Human Be-In may have inadverdently created some mistaken impressions, which we want very much to correct. The article referred to us as "organizers" of a Be-In, which we were supposedly "planning" and hoped to "stage" on a Sunday afternoon very soon. This was a mistake, for a Be-In cannot be organized or planned or stage: it can just be. If we organized the organic flow of Cambridge life into a fixed structure, if we planned a program of events, if we set up a stage to focus...
...still haunts the Olympia Grill, his favorite bar in Prague, where he is treated like a local hero. "All of the incidents in the book are true," he said last week. "We thought we could handle power better than the people we took it from, but we were mistaken. I do not condemn one man alone. I condemn the system that produced this man. My book is an argument against the bankruptcy of our system." In his book, he adds: "They [the Communist leadership] are all fat-a custom-made fat. They were tough when the revolution was tough...
...opposite extreme, Zeligs occasionally probes too deep for his own good. His discussion of Chambers' mistaken recollections of individual dates -- some critical, some petty -- seems particularly force. "In the second Hiss trial," writes Zeligs, "Chambers . . . testified that Richard [his brother] had died on September 19, 1926. Whether Chambers knew it or not (and it is likely that he did), September 19, 1926 was the birth date of Alger Hiss's stepson. Timothy Hobson (an easy slip away from September 9, 1926, the actual date of Richard's death)." Zeligs attempts to tie this error into a chain of meaningful mistakes...
...also urges a suspension of U.S. bombing of the North, because the raids might well "heighten Hanoi's resolve to fight on." He is not alone in that argument. But he gives insufficient weight to an equal probability: an end to the bombing might lead Hanoi to the mistaken conclusion that if it holds off negotiations just a little longer, the U.S. will finally tire of the whole mess...