Word: mistakenness
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Beyond Stonehenge. At first sight some of the figures could be mistaken for a fortuitously arranged pile of curb stones. But others were recognizably human in shape, seeming to crouch as if frozen in eternity. Most dramatic were the men of stone and bronze, who appear to be literally walking, their heavy legs striking the ground with earth-shaking strides (see cut). Taken together, they suggest a strange yet disquieting voyage back to the mysterious ruins of Stonehenge and beyond...
...know where I could hide-where I could run to." The manager (Shelley Winters) of a mambo troupe (actually Katherine Dunham's) suggests that Silvana go along with them. Says Shelley: "This girl has a very important talent"-for the dance, she means, but she is mistaken. Silvana mambos like a self-conscious tourist. Her real talent is her uncanny beauty, all cool glow and rich simplicity, and a sensational figure. Then, too, it takes no little skill to read with a straight face such lines as those with which this picture concludes: "There was left to me only...
...wonder Upton Sinclair can't get his book, Enemy in the Mouth, published. He still thinks of alcoholism in terms of "John Barleycorn," a term that went out, if I am not mistaken, shortly after the turn of the century. I bet that Sinclair still goes to temperance lectures on the Demon Rum and plays the ballad, Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now on the old piano roll...
Three times the U.S. was on the point of announcing that it would defend Quemoy and Matsu, but at the last moment Dwight Eisenhower, to soothe British fears, vetoed it. He thought U.S. intentions were already clear enough "to make certain that no conflict occurs through mistaken calculations on the other side . . . We have been as exact as it seems possible...
...when Latin America's own businessmen bring pressure on their governments for improved laws and regulations and lessened risks, the results will be far greater than any that U.S. Government pressure could bring about. For their part, U.S. businessmen will have a chance to clear away their own mistaken illusions about the difficulties of doing business in Latin America, and learn something about the rich opportunities that await them...