Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...male dungarees; every adolescent attempt at high metaphysics recalls the warning that mysticism begins with mist and ends in schism. In his soft-centered drama of sex as destroyer and healer, the once promising film maker sedulously apes D. H. Lawrence, whom he seems to have both studied and misunderstood. In the future, Pasolini might well heed an earlier author, whose Sonnet 94 could have been addressed to artists who inflict private fantasies on their public...
...raised here would have been raised in any event. This is the issue of irresponsible use of power. The decision-making process has been misused, the pact of the Rosovsky Report has been violated. these are the central issues. The standing Faculty Committee cannot plead ignorance or that they misunderstood their function. The action they took is clearly illegitimate...
...COOPS rebate policy is one of the most misunderstood aspects of its whole operation. As a cooperative society, the Coop must pay back to its members all the profits left over from members' purchases after taxes and operating expenses. Unless the Coop pays this patronage refund, that profit is liable to be taxed up to fifty per cent as it is in any large corporation...
Eavesdropping Disclosure. In a brief statement concurring with the court, however, Justice Potter Stewart twitted Griswold and Government lawyers for having misunderstood the earlier holding in one important respect. All the court had done, said Stewart, was to require eavesdropping disclosure "where the surveillance violated the Fourth Amendment. We did not decide that any of the surveillances did violate the Fourth Amendment." Eavesdropping that is necessary to national security may well be legal, he said, and lower court judges may be free to decide that issue in chambers, without the defendant's participation. Thus, Stewart intimates, public disclosure...
Farbstein said that when the two students joined the committee, they misunderstood the deans' conception of the Committee's role. He said that the students wanted the power to deal directly with the architects...