Word: mistakenness
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Free-Style Debates. For all his foreign ways, 33-year-old Teacher Hamlett is accepted in the mountain town. He wears a black djellabah, and because he is a Negro is sometimes mistaken for a native. Said one Moroccan merchant: "He is completely at home here...
...comparatively stringent rules. With the thirties came the progressively greater freedom that caused apprehension among members of the Administration. Ada L. Comstock, then President of the Annex, voiced the opinion, "You never take a step back--once you go forward, you never retreat." But she was at least partly mistaken, for the amending of senior privilege in the forties reversed the trend by lessening social freedom. As for the library honor system, it too exists in modified form, and today's examination rules are clearly a compromise between the original restrictions and the anarchic freedom of the forties and early...
...thought. For he sees such terms as "God," "the Christ," and "the Resurrection" as symbols. To Tillich, symbols (as opposed to signs, which merely point to something) are living, growing and sometimes dying things, which participate in the power of what they symbolize. But they are not to be mistaken for the real and unknowable thing behind them. God, therefore, cannot be spoken of as "existing" or "not existing," for this would imply the limiting of the unlimitable, the conditioning of the unconditional...
...freshmen all think they can get in one House, they are gravely mistaken," Dean Watson warned recently. "There isn't that much difference--we don't have a best House and a worst House...
...performance is even palely entertaining, and it is, homage should be directed to the feet of Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who wrote the thing in the first place, using a conventional mistaken-identity farce as a platform from which to mount a deadpan, deadly, beautifully epigrammatic attack on the hypocrisy of a society which was soon, hypocritically, to cast...