Word: mistakenness
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...agree with the author that the administration could learn a lot from HRSFA—Harvard students need unique orginzations with interesting activities, not more generic social activities where getting drunk is mistaken for having...
...come through his office at his private, upscale psychiatric clinic. The plot thickens as Dr. Prentice tries to seduce his secretary only to be surprised in the act by his wife, who is herself having an affair. Dr. Prentice’s compulsive lying creates an intricate web of mistaken identities and a comic atmosphere of chaos in which discombobulated characters falsely accuse and misunderstand each other...
...corporations exist only to reward abstract stockholders. MBAs are taught the pretend-science of manipulating accounting, finance, employees, customers, and stock prices. Financial games and hostile takeovers of competitors are taught to accomplish corporations’ sole objective—to make money and manipulate stock prices. Such a mistaken view of corporations has caused the dismal decline of American auto manufacturers while Toyota and Honda widen their market shares and profits in America, pursuing their goals of expanding employment and technological innovations...
Somehow this acerbic comedy-drama, about a young man's anomic dalliance with his girlfriend's mom, got mistaken for 1967's feel-good romance (and its sardonic theme song for a love song). It's better seen as New York City's joke on the California dream, by stage veterans Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft and director Mike Nichols. The film caps its triumphal happy ending by having its lovers stare into the future and the suburban, plastic life yawning at them. THE WILD RIDE He was just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack...
Never Let Me Go could easily be mistaken for a political novel or a futuristic thriller, but at its dark heart it's an existential fable about people trying to wring some happiness out of life before the lights go out. Because death comes for all of us, and too soon: the ending that spoils everything. --By Lev Grossman