Word: unwittingness
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Tobias Wolff's subtle, vivid memoir, This Boy's Life, was converted into a one-track movie centered on the loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of...
"There are basically two types of complaints newspapers receive," Shourie said. "Those involving misspelling of names, misquoting, and other unwitting errors, as opposed to more long-range complaints."
In the 1940s, `50s and `60s, Harvard had extraordinarily close ties to a Waltham school for the retarded where University researchers performed tests which exposed unwitting students to radioactivity, according to a 1959 report.
The decorating divide between the Bushes and Clintons widens in the Oval Office, where Bush's muted blue haven has been transformed into what one Washington sage calls "the Redskin Room" because of its use (unwitting, one assumes) of the N.F.L. home team's burgundy and gold colors in the...
In the meantime, many shining examples of this minority in the golden land try to bear up under the occasional unwitting offense. Says Berkeley chancellor Tien, a first-generation Chinese American: "Just today I was walking on campus when someone saw me and asked, 'Are you from Japan?' I said...