Word: charlatanism
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Tempers grew short. The F.E.A., Kirk charged, was "attacking our state, our children, our parents." The Governor, countered F.E.A. Executive Secretary Phil Constans, is "a charlatan." At a rally of 30,000 teachers in Orlando last August, Constans urged them to submit their resignations, which F.E.A. leaders could use if Kirk and legislators did not meet their demands, including smaller classes, more modern textbooks as well as pay hikes...
...sessions (though there were several blackies--which unfortunately seem to be the least convincing effects in Serios's reportory), on one occasion found Serios unwilling to permit their inspection of the gismo and the hand that held it, and returned to write: "Whether or not Ted Serios is a charlatan or a genuine psychic we cannot say. We can only state that whe arrived in Denver profoundly skeptical about his ability to produce what Dr. Eisenbud claims in his book--and left even more skeptical." (Compose for tone with the report of the London Daily Mail Commission for the study...
Many of McLuhan's ideas are surely wrong. He admits frequently that even he doesn't believe all of the things he says. But his approach is legitimate. McLuhan is no pop sociologist using stolen theories and distorted facts to grind out best-sellers. He is no charlatan...
...youthful reputation as a scandalous womanizer (deserved) and as a financial charlatan (undeserved) haunted his career. All his life he was candid to the point of impudence and imprudence and maintained a totally un-Victorian intolerance of humbug and hypocrisy. His pen dripped venom. He once endowed an opponent with "the crabbed malice of a maundering witch." Justifying his casual inconsistency on an issue in Parliament, he bluntly said: "We came here for fame." When friends congratulated him on his first accession to the prime ministership, Disraeli said cynically: "Yes, I've climbed to the top of the greasy...
Courtial takes on Ferdinand as a "secretary" in a business that becomes the mecca for every meccano-minded nut in France. It is the world of popular mechanics fictionalized. Courtial himself is an idealist and charlatan, infatuated with the possibilities of lighter-than-air travel. For modest fees, he demonstrates balloon ascents to mobs of gawping yokels...