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...John R. Myer of 146 Upland Road not only denied the charge of discrimination, but said, "We went to the International Student Center and specifically requested minority students, but none came." Mrs. Myer felt that Mrs. Larkin had misunderstood her reason for not renting to a Negro couple--"I'm not willing to rent to any couple," she said. "Our rooms are simply too small...
...despite his credentials, Milton's place in the Eisenhower Administration has been noisily misunderstood. Milton, cried Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, was "the real President of the U.S." Even Edgar Eisenhower, eldest of the four surviving Eisenhower brothers, has accused Milton of dragging Dwight down the primrose path of overliberalism...
...performer, Paar watches himself on a monitor set during the show, but he also seems to be watching himself on an imaginary monitor when he is not performing. Compulsive and candid talker that he is, he looks for signs of having said the wrong thing or having been misunderstood. He still broods "When will they start tearing me down?" Or "I wonder how many among my group really love me?" Says a former agent of his: "He has no armor. You can pierce him with a piece of Kleenex...
While you can always tell a Harvard man (and Ben Franklin added that you couldn't tell him much), the Summer scholar has, until now, remained a misunderstood and misinterpreted figure...
...work so celebrated and so concise, the Book of Job seems to be much misunderstood by men in both pew and pulpit. Some think of Job as the paragon of patience; to others, Job appears so impatient that he dares impiety in his insistence that God explain himself. Many Bible scholars see the Book of Job as an attempt to justify God's ways to men; but to another school of thought, the book's enormous thesis means simply that no justification is possible-only revelation, before which the man who cries for justice and understanding must...