Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Misunderstood for 31 years
...story on George Orwell [Nov. 28] provided a penetrating analysis of a book that is often misunderstood. Readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four should not fear the events described in the novel but take them as a warning of what could happen. Orwell's intentions were not to predict the future but to encourage people to think about it in an intelligent...
...union threw up picket lines in an attempt to halt bus travel. Yet Greyhound began hiring more than 1,000 new workers who were willing to defy the union, and was serving 500 locations in 27 states. Said Chairman John Teets: "Everyone misunderstood the resolve of this company to operate...
...That tax increase is part of the President's program and has never been repudiated," said Feldstein's special assistant Geoffrey O. Carliner '65. "He [Feldstein] is surprised that they have misunderstood him. He does not disagree or criticize policy...
...lived only seven months after its publication, long enough to realize that his book was becoming enormously successful and widely misunderstood. He attempted a note of clarification: "My recent novel is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labor Party (of which I am a supporter) but as a show-up of the perversions to which a centralized economy is liable and which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe (allowing of course for the fact that...