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Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. was his usual affable self when he acknowledged Yale's academic maturity and gave one of the nine other honararies to Henry Ford 2nd, who resigned from the Class of '40 when he turned in a bogus termpaper the spring of his senior year...
Next morning, in response to Levy's plea, Dayan promised to prepare the plane for takeoff and produce the fedayeen. A group of bogus prisoners were shown to the skyjackers from a distance and Dayan had an airplane taken out to a runway, supposedly to fly the released fedayeen to Cairo. From the control tower, one of the "prisoners"-actually an Arabic-speaking Israeli soldier-lulled the skyjackers: "They tell me I'm being sent to Cairo. Is that true? Praised be Allah." Meanwhile, out of sight, commandos were practicing assault tactics on a 707. When they were...
...beginning of the Nazi end, takes a good many chances. Its hopes is that decadence can be at once entertaining and instructive, and that its historical milieu can provide a poignant contrast to the lives of its characters. The danger is that the decadence will shine forth as either bogus or overwhelming, and that the historical setting will overshadow the characters poised before it. Cabaret gambles on the trade and, I fear, it loses. But though it fails to execute the move completely it's still one of the deftest entertainments around...
...States last week launched its most massive air attacks of the year. Coupled with new fighting in Cambodia and Laos, these attacks belie Nixon's claims of winding down the war. The Tet offensive--if indeed ever planned--has, in fact, never materialized, and Nixon continues to advertise a bogus timetable for illusory peace, a schedule geared only toward his all too likely reelection...
...fantasy is that a realist movement exists in America-in the sense that Cubism, for instance, was a coherent movement with defined aims. The word movement, in fact, is mere packaging: a bogus form of authentication aimed at nervous collectors who demand instant history. In reality, the scenario is very complex. No generalizations hold true all the way across it, and the strongest realists-like Alfred Leslie and Philip Pearlstein-produce work that would have commanding authority whatever the current fashion...