Word: mistakenness
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Last week Eriko, a secretary, was being bawled out by her boss for an unforgivable error: she had mistaken one of the boss's concubines for his wife, and escorted the concubine unannounced straight into the boss's office. Would Eriko be fired? Would her boy friend walk out on her? All of a sudden, Japanese listeners seemed to have lost interest. Moreover, some were downright disgusted. Complained one housewife: "I had been led to believe that Eriko would be happily married by this time. I don't like the program any more...
...come to err so often? Their commonest stumble was a "functional" (i.e., not organic) heart murmur, of a type which Dr. Goldwater describes as "transitory, innocent." Sometimes they were misled by high blood pressure. Other errors were more surprising: tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach and latent syphilis were all mistaken for heart trouble...
...picture that we sometimes get of a materially prosperous but morally sick society derives, I am sure, from too much emphasis on the abnormal behavior of a tiny fraction of the population . . . The mistaken application of Freud's teaching to the raising of children has produced many spoilt, unhappy adolescents who are only now beginning to find out that the adult world does not automatically give them everything they want. But the influence of the 'Church of Vienna' fortunately does not extend much beyond the cities, nor much further west than Chicago...
...Joke. "The princes are sadly mistaken," said India's Congress Party Premier Nehru last week, "if they think that they can turn back the clock of progress." Nevertheless, in Rajasthan the wise money was ten to one on the Maharaja...
...silhouettes. Using a mixed technique of tempera with oil glazes on heavy canvas, Stuempfig gradually built a spacious river town veiled in a warm and somehow sad early morning dimness. The neo-classical composition recalls Corot's Italian landscapes, and its distant, county-courthouse dome might almost be mistaken for St. Peter's in Rome. "Pennsylvania towns," Stuempfig insists, "do have an Italian look...