Word: mistakenness
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...your picture accompanying this article: unless I am seriously mistaken, the singer on the far right happens to be a mezzo-soprano named Natalie Moeckel. I feel that you have done your readers an injustice by not publishing a better picture of this charming young lady...
...plot, like all G & S, is incidental to the essence, which is the songs themselves. The Gondoliers revolves around that stock English situation of changelings and mistaken identities, and ends with a happy resolution of the whole mess. The satire is aimed directly at both the pretensions of monarchy and the stupidity of the levellers who would supplant it. Except with Shakespeare and G & S, kings tend to set one yawning, but the Duke of Plaza-Toro and the King of Barataria are rollicking good fun. The brunt of the satire falls on the Gondoliers themselves, however, and their attempts...
...course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy. In 1909 he landed at Texas, not only pioneered in the junior college movement but also in the fields of religious and esthetic education. Often caustic, he roundly denounced psychologists ("They have built a maze, mistaken it for the universe and have succeeded only in getting lost in it"), current teaching methods ("There has never been a generation so severed from tradition. They don't even know the lullabies"), once ended a lecture with a one-sentence summary of his own credo: "A little knowledge leadeth...
...week's end the mediation committee of Long Island's Suffolk County Medical Society announced after a three-hour session that because Dr. Kris had been under a "mistaken impression" regarding "the limits of the family's ability to pay," there would be no bill for the Hoopers. However, lest a dangerous precedent be set, the committee took pains to note: "Any doctor has the right to render a bill for his service...
...fascist-tinged political movement. Lonesome Rhodes is promised a Cabinet post as Secretary for National Morale. But by this time the moviegoer is not believing a word of it, and he may well be wondering if Director Kazan, like the villain of his piece, has not somehow mistaken his public for a bunch of "stupid slobs...