Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between fear of the unconscious and longing for membership, and then suggesting that a nation whose illusions are constantly shattered, and whose self-awareness is coming inexorably to dominate its thought, could scarcely avoid this fear. It is disturbing that Dahrendorf has commented, "I do not wish to be misunderstood...whatever criticism I may suggest of American society is praise by comparison to my views about my own country, Germany...
EDWARD M. PURCELL, Gerard Gade University Professor, will discuss "False Analogies and Misunderstood Models" at the Hillel Round Table of World Affairs...
...noon of glory he is suddenly struck down; and in the darkling and poetic end of all, he learns that the paths of glory lead to the same lowly grave he would in any case have lain in. Yet it might have been otherwise. "Macario," Death says sadly, "you misunderstood the gift." He misunderstood the gift of life-the turkey, which is meant to be shared with other men. He misunderstood the gift of spirit-the water, which heals where God wills and is not meant for any man's profit...
...developed into an inveterate knee-tapper, prodding his own and his opponents' knees with a blunt finger for emphasis; although Gromyko speaks English reasonably well, he insisted on conducting the Rusk negotiations in Russian through an interpreter to make sure that no word was lost or misunderstood. And indeed much of the talk concerned words. The men around the table sounded more like semanticists than diplomats, exploring the precise meaning of such terms, widely used by the Russians on Berlin, as "access." "free city" and "guarantees...
...through the job of recording two columns' worth of impressions, Wechsler was struck by the idea that the Russians ought to be reading what he was writing. "It has become commonplace," he wrote, "for Premier Khrushchev to grant audiences to American journalists and tell them he is a misunderstood man who only seeks peace and good will. Such utterances are quite properly reported at length in the U.S., because what Russia's leader says at any moment is news, whether or not he says what he means or means what he says. By the same standard...