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Luckily, there's not a chance that certain of his actions will be misunderstood. His playing is clearly outstanding, and should prove a most effective means of communicating his spirit...
...total integrity and complete, sometimes disconcerting, forthrightness. They soon learned the dimensions of his moral courage and leadership. He defended his School and his faculty against the marauders of the McCarthy years. He spoke clearly, at a time when his words were needed, in defense of a misunderstood and misrepresented constitutional freedom, the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. He spoke and acted for the civil rights of black citizens before it was popular...
...days after making his comment, Romney appeared in Washington, where newsmen gave him a chance to get off the hook by asking whether he might have been misunderstood. "I was not misunderstood," he snapped. "If you want to get into a discussion of who's been brainwashing who, I suggest you take a look at what the Administration has been telling the American people." With that, he whipped out a newspaper clipping in which Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was quoted as saying, just before the 1966 election, that draft calls might be cut the following year. "The information...
Pritchett went to Dublin for the first time as a boy reporter during the civil war, and he is knowledgeable about the "Troubles." Even so, he has already been reproached by Irish critics of the book, on its appearance in England, for having misunderstood the city. This must have given Pritchett great pleasure, as it confirms one of his points about Dubliners: along with the celebrated wit, malice to all is one of their qualities. So is secrecy. Having asked the whereabouts of an old friend, he got this reply: "I have no treasonable information...
...honest citizen is unjustly accused of evildoing. An appeal for justice is mismanaged and misunderstood through several layers of bureaucracy. Henchmen of the accuser take matters into their own hands and resolve the issue by violence...