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...worker, is currently facing a charge of murder (false, naturally) for the killing by paper knife of her handsome, brilliant husband-of-one-hour, Victor Carlson, of the socially eminent Monticello Carlsons. As the loyal viewer of Edge well knows, the marriage was performed by a fake J.P., the bogus rite having been staged by Carlson himself, a racketeer with a clipped, cultured accent and a Byronic lip twist, who quoted Nietzsche, drank sherry and drove caddish foreign cars. About the only nice thing about this suave swine was that he would occasionally, in a contemptuous Freudian way, massage...
Security Syndrome. Gradually the reader comes to see that the book is really an indictment of education as a class-apprenticeship. The college warden is a businessman whose carefully cultivated eccentricities (e.g., gardening seminude) are bogus, the college chaplain is a neurotic without faith, and the scholars are without scholarship. Typified by Chote, the non-U students of Sturdley are obsessed to an indecent degree by love of money and of security. In this situation, the usual English envy-hatred syndrome focuses upon the American undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have...
This fraud, like the bogus Protocols of the Elders of Zion used against the Jews, has been spread by bigots for almost half a century. It first turned up in a congressional election in 1912 in a lunatic-fringe tract mailed from Aurora, Mo. The following year, a congressional committee investigating unfair election practices condemned the oath as a fabrication. At that time, the false oath was read into the Congressional Record, a fact that present-day bigots cite to lend it an air of authenticity. Ku Klux Klanners circulated it against Al Smith in 1928. It turned up again...
...bogus document that was designed years ago to arouse anti-Catholic feeling. The "oath," which has been repudiated by the Knights of Columbus, presumably bound each Knight to kill Protestants. The scurrilous "pledge" is markedly similar to the false, anti-Semitic "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion...
...were the main victims of D'Annunzio's style, which according to Rhodes was "like that of Venetian glass, redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later proposed kidnaping Pope Benedict XV in an airplane and dropping him into the Adriatic), hailed D'Annunzio as "the prodigious seducer, the ineffable descendant of Casanova and Cagliostro...