Word: mistakenness
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...been more explosively anti-Bard than Shaw: "What a crew they are-these Saturday-to-Monday athletic stockbroker Orlandos, these villains, fools, clowns, drunkards, cowards, intriguers, fighters, lovers, patriots, hypochondriacs who mistake themselves (and are mistaken by the author) for philosophers and princes." And yet, like most other critics, Shaw had to concede: "I am bound to add I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare . . . The imaginary scenes and people he has created become more real for us than our actual life...
...accomplish in the week's whirl of clenched fists and clownish grins, rattling rockets and fluttering peace doves, was his assault on President Eisenhower. In part, Khrushchev's attack was read as an outburst of pique and frustration. During the thaw Khrushchev staked his prestige on his mistaken notion that he could take Ike into camp, negotiate with him some kind of U.S. retreat from Berlin (Ike had once called the Berlin situation "abnormal"). The U.S.'s determination to stand firm in Berlin, made evident in tough speeches by Secretary of State Herter, Under Secretary Dillon...
...American Legion oratorical contest. In 1956 he orated himself into the Senate, where his most obvious dis tinction is to be that body's youngest member. Legend has it that an old lady visiting the Capitol once said to him: "I understand that you page boys are often mistaken for Senator Church...
...distressed at an underlying implication apparent in TIME'S article, "A Good English Teacher" [March 14], an implication derogatory to English teachers in general. It is that English teachers are not attractive or young: "A pretty, blue-eyed young woman, who might be mistaken for a home economics teacher." Here are photos of Gwen Hibbard and Betty De Young on our staff; they do teach English...
...control, though "here is an area where there will be a good deal of conflict in the future." Historian Schlesinger agrees that future birth control legislation is unlikely, but castigates Catholic resistance to repeal of existing laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut (passed by Yankee Protestants in the 18703) as "mistaken and offensive...