Word: balderdash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book in question is U.S. Novelist Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, a stomach-turning homosexual excursion, which the British government refused to act against on the theory that the book probably had literary merit. Balderdash, retorted Sir Cyril Black, a Conservative M.P., friend of Evangelist Billy Graham and watchdog of British public morals...
...Abundant Life." This balderdash was devised by Temple Collegiate's proprietor, William Franklyn Wolsey, 56, who calls himself Archbishop John I of Vancouver. Born in Saskatchewan, where he quit school after the sixth grade, the bearded divine once served two years in a Milwaukee jail for abandoning his four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter...
...Dean Rostow. It has put the corporation in danger of forgetting that its real business is making money for its stockholders. While not sweeping away legitimate social advances, he gives the back of his hand to the idea that a corporation has any other prime duties, calls it "bewildering balderdash." For example, despite all the current calls for corporate statesmanship in price setting, he insists that prices should not be set on the basis of public or political policy, but on the needs of the corporation and what the market will bear -the higher the better. To do otherwise...