Word: mistakenness
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...will in the long run make things easier for the Communists. "The big, positive things call for courage and a new political approach," he cried. "Taken together, they add up to an all-out fight against Communism . . . The opening to the left is founded on political ambiguity and a mistaken program. Both of these things encourage Communism, as is confirmed by the new Communist threats...
...Coffin, newly elected president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In it, Van Dusen, a recent past president of Union's student body, innocently offered his assistance to Coffin in any matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that Van Dusen accepted, believing that his revered adviser really wanted him to do so. "And so," says...
...that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there is one thing that makes him angry, it is to be mistaken for an Angry Young Man through recurrent journalistic confusion with John (Room at the Top) Braine, one of a group of dissidents who are sore at the English Establishment. Yet he is not a Tory or a stuffed shirt, but is an anti-disestablishmentarian...
...Boys from Syracuse. This can't be fluff because it unreels so welleven if it has been 24 years since Abbott, Rodgers and Hart opened it on Broadway, after purloining the mistaken-identity story line from William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Song and skinbut no sobs, no sorrows, no sighs...
...would be mistaken to view the remarks of James about mathematics as a renunciation of his pragmatic theory of truth. Consider the question, Why are parietal hours limited at Harvard? The answer, Because one and one make two, would be irrelevant. If, however, the response were Because one and one at times make one and then, nine months later, make three, the person who asked the question would recognize the reason for the University policy...