Word: misunderstand
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...write an opera that would embody their struggle. His hugely ambitious choice for a story: Tolstoy's War and Peace. What he finally produced in 1943, however, was written in an almost schizoid style-part introspective love story, part heroic showpiece-that was difficult to grasp, easy to misunderstand. Stalin's commissars gave only grudging approval, demanded more pageantry and patriotic fervor. At his death in 1953, the composer was still rewriting the work. He never saw it fully staged...
...state dinner given for him at the White House, Lee bluntly urged the President and Congress to "speak in one voice on basic issues of foreign policy, and in clear and unmistakable terms. Then friends and allies will know where they stand, and others will not be able to misunderstand when crossing the line from insurgency to open aggression...
While The Crimson's extensive reporting of Nieman Foundation seminars in the week of November 4th was generally accurate, I should offer some clarifications lest your readers misunderstand our procedures...
...misunderstand me," Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, said earlier this month. "I don't want to be misconstrued to say that everything about our affirmative action program is fine. Everything is not fine, but things are better here for minorities and women now than they were three years...
...faculty listed among the researchers. But this sort of genuine concern for the welfare of the underprivileged or unjustly treated has seemed rarer to me as this year has moved along. Even correcting public misinformation seems of slight concern to Harvard faculty. Do the millions in Middle America misunderstand the nature of Communism, or the recent history of the Communist nations? They might correct their views if they get a chance to hear an authority like John Fairbank at a televised Senate hearing, as they did in the midst of the Vietnamese War; but in general, there seems...