But lie was one of the words of the week, as Hardin noted for the jury Wednesday when he wrote the words "mistake," "bad memory" and "lie" on a large sheet of paper set on an easel next to the witness stand.
By the way, in that PBS interview, he said the word "mistakes", "error" or "failure" five times, with his finger pointed not at himself but squarely at Wall Street and corporate America.
(Indeed, during his Wednesday chat, Mr. Blankfein spoke the inevitable words "mistakes were made" – Wall Street's idea of a mea culpa).
Some of his early purchases were, in his words, "mistakes".
Friends will throw sharp-edged words, mistakes will be made, love interests will choose others, sleep will be lost.
In the late nineteenth century, Leo III mounted an assault on what he called "Americanism," which meant, in his words, "license mistaken for liberty; an appetite for discussion and criticism; a readiness, ultimately, to think whatever one wants and to publish it".
A free society cannot tolerate words being mistaken for actions.
At worst, one could see a bit of a con, or, perhaps, modern poetry's answer to Chance the Gardener, whose simple, dim words were mistaken for profundity in the novel and movie "Being There".
But it was a throwaway line, the word often mistaken for merely just "work".
"You took my sadness out of context," is the opening lyric of the song, but when she later sings the words, "they mistook my kindness for weakness," it's impossible not to hear "they" as representing not just that one guy but everyone that had tried to prove Lana wasn't who she said she was.
