Word: misunderstood
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...much for the referential use of language. Against it in those days we set up a thing called the emotive use of language. (We inherited the word "emotive;" I think it was Marty who launched it.) What we tried to say has often been misunderstood. . . . The referential use of language is the job of leading people to think about certain things--about this rather than about that--and to think in this sort of way rather than in that way. Reference is your main instrument for influencing people. You can also do it other ways...
...first planning sessions for the spurious Anarchy Designs or, as it is now known, H-R X. It was at this meeting that one of X's founders, a man who has since fled to New York to escape cultural persecution, formulated a basic X goal: to be misunderstood by the Press. Therefore, I would personally like to thank the CRIMSON for printing John G. Short's splendid melange of myth, error, and misinterpretation about H-R X. Randolph Boog First Hyperion Harvard-Radcliffe...
...Some of the schools misunderstood the oral agreement after Kinasewich's case and thought that the ECAC rules still held," Watson said. "This resolution eliminates the confusion and establishes a workable procedures," he added...
Even his critics concede that Goffman has skillfully explored an area of life that has until now been both neglected and misunderstood. "The individual is known by the social bonds that hold him," writes Goffman in Behavior in Public Places. "And through these bonds he is held to something that is a social entity with a life substance of its own." However trivial social exchange may seem at the levels Goffman examines, "it is out of these unpromising materials that the gossamer reality of social occasions is built. We find that our little inhibitions are carefully tied into a network...
Harvard is not the British Cabinet, our students are not Nazis, we are not in Bavaria. The Munich analogy attributed to me in Wednesday's CRIMSON (12/18) is inaccurate and unwarranted in the context of our present problems. The possibility of an unrealistic and misunderstood reaction to the Paine Hall disruption is great. We all face a serious challenge to creditability, educational processes, and student concerns. We need hard thinking, not analogies. Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52 Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids