Word: charlatanism
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...interaction between Harvard student poets, Anton V. Yakovlev ’03 explained that “The Instigator,” a character from his poem “Cityscape in the Summer,” was fashioned in response to the “The Charlatan,” a character in “The Treehouse Journal,” a poem written and performed by Jennifer L. Nelson...
...sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared to put bite in its bark, reportedly moving its nuclear-fuel rods out of storage?a possible step toward producing nuclear weapons...
Schneider’s hands are a space where strange figures play. Probably very few of these children were aware that their hands contained exclamation points, pyramids, spider webs, ballet dancers or veins of gold. The charlatan photographer brings all these things to light. One can imagine a fly, with its UV vision, seeing much the same thing as it is about to be swatted. In this sense the images are very inhuman, since they require the unnatural eye of a camera to be seen...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary ... He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as ... Bertrand Russell ('he made a fool of himself'). He has spoken ill of children ('the most imperfect of all human beings') and dogs ('they are only brutes'). He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice ... (H)e has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in ... college students...