Word: mistakenness
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...university's freedom to pursue its unhampered course are immediately preceded by an emphatic statement of the duty of the university to aid and support the defence policies of the national government, these words can hardly mean anything else than that those who are convinced that these policies are mistaken should either keep silent or sever their connection with the university...
...follow it are these: "Such is the spirit of world citizenship at this moment. The analogies to which this spirit appeals are, however, not wholly encouraging. Religion is in a different case from science, etc.," and the rest of the chapter is devoted to showing why this spirit is mistaken. It is the whole point of the book to show "the dilemma of religion"-that we cannot get to a world faith by the easy and usual philosophical path (proposed by Dewey and others) of eliminating the particular and historical characteristics symbolized by Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed...
...most encouraging sign of the times that this world is not yet lost. This sign must endure. Therefore, hold fast! Listen to your teachers with a healthy skepticism. Remember that they don't know half so much as they seem to know, or pretend to know. They were mistaken last time; why should they be right this time? John Haynes Holmes...
...doubt you have been encouraged by the results of the recent air battles but you would be mistaken if you were beginning to think that the danger of invasion or massed attacks from the air is past. I must warn you against relapsing into any mood of complacency. The future may well hold for us far greater ordeals than any through which we have yet passed. Only a small fraction of the Germans' heavy bomber force has yet been, engaged...
...Philipp) had painted straight, conventional portraits of costumed cinemactors. One (Fiene) had thrown in a portrait of Producer Wanger himself. Famed U. S. "Primitive" Grant Wood, who sees life steadily and sees it neat, had painted a barbershop septet in a bar so photographically that it might have been mistaken for a movie still. Spanish Frescoist Luis Quintanilla had concentrated on the women in the cast (Carmen Morales and Judith Linden), left the two-fisted action scenes for Thomas Benton, Raphael Soyer, Georges Schreiber and James Chapin...