Word: misunderstandings
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Kraft isn't the only Western journalist to misunderstand and misportray Khomeini Richard Reeves, in a long story for The New Yorker on Pakistan last October, managed to slip in this gem: "Ayatollah Khomeini (or Imam Khomeini; the title applies to all Shia leaders...
...have their names, including groups like the Republican Club and the H-R Christian Fellowship. All of these organizations represent groups that have specific interests and often unique needs, that need to be addressed in some coherent fashion. And this is not the only point Mr. Kilson seemed to misunderstand when he blasted the BSA for not being "consompolitan" enough, because he also seems to think that the BSA is keeping student who were involved in it from pursuing other interests as as well, be they cosmopolitan is not. This simply not the case...
...entertained the previous evening; the other saying that the names have been made up for the firing squads; he must shoot first if he does not want to be shot." Reviewing the work of a Marxist critic, Waugh pounced with feigned humility: "His thesis, if I do not misunderstand him, is that the class struggle is the only topic worth a writer's attention; his difficulty that this means relegating to insignificance almost the whole of the world's literature...
...political implications, then made up his mind to pursue it. "I've thought about it for a couple of days and decided this was something I could do that probably no one else could do," Mondale told TIME last week. "I think the Soviets and maybe many others misunderstand our campaigns and our two-party system. I wanted them to know that we want these talks to succeed." Administration officials seemed unperturbed by the prospect of Gromyko sitting down with the political opposition. Said Burt: "I hope Mondale softens...
...make the accusation is to misunderstand both William F. Buckley Jr. and the nature of snobbery. Buckley is an expansive character who is almost indiscriminately democratic in the range of his friends and interests. He glows with intimidating self-assurance. The true snob sometimes has an air of pugnacious, overbearing self-satisfaction, but it is usually mere front. The snob is frequently a grand porch with no mansion attached, a Potemkin affair. The essence of snobbery is not real self-assurance but its opposite, a deep apprehension that the jungles of vulgarity are too close, that they will creep...