Word: misunderstood
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...past open meetings had been distorted by news media, and the presence of non-HCUA members restricted discussion of the candidates. Last night, however, he stated that he had changed his mind and personally favored an open meeting because he feared "the intentions of the HCUA" might be misunderstood if the elections meetings were closed...
This is to clarify your editorial of April 15, which completely misunderstood the purpose of the proposed rules change. In the first place, "Junior-Senior privilege" would work exactly as "Senior privilege" worked in the past. There was nothing "automatic" about the old system, and we are not proposing one in which a girl would be automatically excluded from this privilege because she had a certain number of social violations on her record. The record of each girl would be carefully and impartially examined. If Radcliffe girls are as mature and responsible as they have been purported to be, their...
...evidence concerning the foreman's bias is met with a statement that his friend "must have misunderstood" his remark that the "guineas" "ought to hang anyway." The statement of the policemen to the effect that the foreman was prejudiced against Italians was ignored...
Straight's story has the ring of truth. both artistic and actual. But by now, every ten-year-old TV viewer already knows that there are no bad Cheyennes. only misunderstood Cheyennes. that any friendship between honest white man and loyal Indian chief is doomed. Michael Straight's hope of telling so straight a story successfully has withered under the glare of the glittering electronic...
Trains & Bicycies. Like Böll and Grass -and most of his Group 47 contemporaries-Uwe Johnson, 28, views today's Germany as the dangerous and corrupt legacy of yesterday. But his main target is less the confrontation of the past than the misunderstood present. Johnson, who grew up in East Germany and moved (not fled, he insists) to the West in 1960, has become famous writing about the side he came from and the interplay across the border. Johnson's books seem to offer Germans the gloomiest of choices. East Germany is a police state, less oppressive...