Word: charlatan
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Hope, utter charlatan though she be, at least lures us to life's end along a pretty road...
...Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united on at least one thing: to have some share, however remote, in Pascal's paternity." Pascal's coment on reading the profile was: "There is thin line between genius and charlatan, and Sahm has put me on the wrong side...
Trofim Lysenko is an egregiously indestructible plant breeder from the Ukrainian black-earth belt who long ago won world notoriety, scientific contempt and Stalinist favor with his attempt to rewrite nature to suit Marx. A weird cross between sinister charlatan and seedy fanatic. Lysenko used his political influence, based on Stalin's favor, to wreak ruthless vengeance on his critics, the scholars who had made genetics-until his rise-the pride of Russian science...
Entertainment Barred. The A.M.A.'s house of delegates last week also approved a report by its council on mental health giving a guarded endorsement of the use of hypnosis in medicine, surgery and dentistry. Because hypnosis is such easy "meat for the charlatan," the council insisted that its use should be limited to specially trained doctors and dentists, who must be careful to use it only in the area of their specialty. On the hazards of hypnosis, the council had conflicting evidence and could reach no agreement. But on one point it was dogmatic: "The use of hypnosis...
Then Parpalaid, disillusioned with city life, returns only to find his favorite hangout, the village hotel, now turned into a bustling hospital. Parpalaid begs Knock to reveal his secret, which is what the charlatan terms the "science of medicine." Romains is deadly serious in his concern with modern man's susceptibility to pseudo-scientific worship, and Knock's final manipulations of Parpalaid result in an ironic and completely unsentimental ending...