Word: mistakenness
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...opposition to an Illinois Revenue Article, which he considers poorly drafted and financially dangerous. Since both parties officially support the bill, Stevenson's position could easily hurt him. Nevertheless, he thinks he can get the bill defeated and still win the election. But Stevenson's idealism should not be mistaken for naivete; he is acutely aware of the political realities with which he must deal...
...neglected bourgeois wife of bumptious Robert Morley. In revenge, she undertakes a night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady, a nephew, an upstairs maid, a seething proprietor, a bellboy, gendarmes, four skittish schoolgirls, an underdressed chanteuse and a doddering duke...
...Apropos of Adam Clayton Powell, alias "Daniel" [Sept. 30]. Am I mistaken, or didn't ministers use to preach the Gospel from their pulpits on Sunday morning? Apparently Mr. Powell feels that the denunciation and abasement of his House Education and Labor Committee as "racists" is more important than God's word. MARK J. HARDCASTLE King of Prussia...
Such is the mistaken image which has grown out of not only last year's riots, but also the controversial phrase "black power." For if hate is the motivating force in Watts, it is hate modulated by shrewdness. And regardless of how great a myth has been built around August '65, even the militants know that burning down your own house is a poor way to relieve frusttration...
Feeling Foxed. Remembering Fowler's words, many businessmen felt foxed last week when President Johnson cited "an exaggerated boom in business investment" and included a 16-month suspension of the credit among his emergency anti-inflationary measures. "A mistaken choice of remedies," said U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough...