Word: misunderstoodness
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...grown accustomed to his faces: Hitler the buffoon, Hitler the madman, Hitler the monster. Memoirs of a Confidant introduces us to Hitler the misunderstood idealist whose vision of peace and prosperity was distorted by his gangster lieutenants. The author of this benign nonsense was Otto Wagener, a forgotten Nazi who served as storm trooper chief of staff and party economist until his career was derailed by Rival Hermann Göring. According to the book's editor, Yale History Professor Henry Ashby Turner Jr., Wagener was lucky to escape Göring's blood purge of June 30, 1934. He spent...
...began to wonder, in a moistly liberal formulation, whether Ann Coulter might be ... misunderstood? All her right-wing capering aside ("We've got to attack France!"), Coulter was an Ivy League--educated legal writer before she was a TV pundit. She's an omnivorous reader (everything from her friend Matt Drudge's website to the works of French philosopher Jacques Ellul), and she isn't afraid to begin a column on Bush, as she did in January, "Maybe he is an idiot." (The column pointed out that the most direct way to make abortion illegal would be ... to make abortion...
...current book, Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus, just issued by a Roman Catholic publisher (Paulist Press; 175 pages; $8.95), contends that Jews and Christians alike fail to grasp Jesus' ties to the competing Jewish factions of his time. Christians, says Falk, have misunderstood some of the teachings of Jesus, while Jews have been needlessly hostile toward "Yeshua ha Notzri" (Jesus of Nazareth). Falk's book offers a provocative and controversial theory on Christian origins...
...have a third reason to celebrate divestment that is less obvious: the campaign itself, and what it represents for a growing, learning community of conscience at Harvard. On a campus where activism is as common as it is frustrating, misunderstood, and only occasionally effective, the dramatic success of the divestment campaign was no accident, and it points to what could be the emerging future of the campus activist community: targeted tactics, broad collaboration, effective public outreach, and constant, unwavering, single-minded commitment...
...Some in the Bush Administration were offended by your speech about weaknesses in the transatlantic alliance, which said NATO is no longer the primary venue to discuss and coordinate strategy. Unfortunately, the way the speech was transported through various channels has led to my original proposal being somewhat misunderstood. I wanted to establish more common ground in the transatlantic relationship through NATO, the E.U. and other institutions. We are not just ready to discuss the questions of military importance, but to go further into a real strategic dialogue on questions such as climate change, international terrorism, nonproliferation...