Word: mistakenness
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Barth feels free to reject the writings of the church fathers where he feels they may have mistaken the meaning of God's Word; even his admitted master, John Calvin, is not exempt. Once, when someone questioned the unorthodox way in which he was commenting on Calvin, Barth retorted: "Calvin is in Heaven and has had time to ponder where he went wrong in his teachings. Doubtless he is pleased that I am setting him aright...
...growing number of sociologists and plain parents are beginning to show some concern with this trend. Says Carlfred B. Broderick, associate professor of family relationships at Pennsylvania State University, and one of the nation's top authorities on children: "Many parents appear to operate under the mistaken theory that sex starts at puberty. They assume that early kissing is meaningless. But pre-teen dating starts the youngster earlier on the road to progressive intimacy. By the time these children have reached their teens, they have pretty well covered the field, and are ready for nothing less than marriage...
...fancy name comes without hundreds of sliding doors-mobile picture windows designed to "bring the outdoors indoors." Office builders have tried to make their entrances invisible (some have done away with doors entirely, have "curtains" of swooshing air instead), and in executive suites more than one vice president has mistaken a floor-to-ceiling glass door for a clear path to the water cooler...
...reaching out for the better and larger. It is a happiness; and a pursuit of happiness. To be one, it must be both. The gains of the past must be kept before men and active enjoyment of them must be encouraged so that regression will not easily be mistaken for growth, change or substitution for increase, the similar and different for the better and larger. Yet there would be no gains to keep and enjoy were men not also encouraged and enabled to explore and to experiment, to purposefully reach forth into the unknown to bring forth new possibilities...
...whys start colliding with the wherefores. There is a group, for example, that could be called the Inexplicables. Why would a girl with a graceful name like Harriette Lake want to change it to Ann Sothern? John F. Sullivan could have hardly been afraid of being mistaken for John L. when he changed his name to Fred Allen. The name Edythe Marrener is at least as interesting as Susan Hayward. Why change Thelma Ford to Shirley Booth, Jeanette Morrison to Janet Leigh, Patrick Barry to Barry Sullivan, Edward Flanagan to Dennis O'Keefe, Kim Reid to Kim Stanley, Virginia...