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...aunt's problem was remembering to remove a moustache she could no longer see, and trying not to wander around the house with her mouth open." As for the sluts of England-they may still feel miserable and optimistic, but they know they are no longer misunderstood...
...Changed stockings in a taxi? Could you try on clothes in any shop, any time, without worrying about your underclothes? How many things are in the wrong room-cups in the study, boots in the kitchen?" The right answers, says Whitehorn, make "you one of us: the miserable, optimistic, misunderstood race of sluts...
...United States, he maintained, is basically misunderstood in South America. There are virtually no American studies programs at Latin schools, and very few professors and students from the U.S. are willing to spend time at the academically weak Latin American universities...
...Assistant Secretary entertained questions from the floor. "Since the Secretary thinks that student travel can do so much to dispel misunderstanding of the U.S. in Latin America," one listener wanted to know, "how can the State Department afford not to let American students go where we are most misunderstood--Cuba...
...lift it finally above what Theologian Helmut Thielicke calls the "paralyzing complexes" about the past. With the world's curses at Hitler still ringing in Germany's ears, says Thielicke, "we still do not feel free to use a word like Vaterland uninhibitedly for fear of being misunderstood. And because we have a complex about it, many of us are even embarrassed by our national anthem - Deutschland uber Alles, though its original meaning was simply a child's declaration of love for his mother: 'You are the most beautiful land of all, with your castles, rivers...