Word: contrivedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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All this uproar over a plane operated by the U.S. embassy in South Africa being used for "spying" strikes me as a bit on the contrived side. Several American pilots-I was one -flew all around South Africa in 1968 in a group of small planes rented from the South...
Gas-station closings bring out a suspicious streak in many drivers. Across the country, large numbers of motorists believe that the shortage has been contrived by the oil companies and the Government to push up prices. Says John Langille, a Boston salesman who keeps topping off the tanks of his...
Not likely. If the shortage has been "contrived" by anybody, it has been by the 13 members of the OPEC cartel, who have reduced crude-oil pumping 7% to 10% in support of the 14.5% price boosts they have imposed so far this year. The cutbacks have turned last year...
Probably the most immediately striking element of the Art Ensemble's music is their use of multi-instrumentalist. It is not unusual to see a jazz saxophonist double on flute or clarinet, but Joseph Jarman works beside a rack of no fewer than eleven woodwind instruments, ranging from a wooden...
While President Bok's search for complexities is in the best intellectual tradition, there comes a time when even the most objective observer must wonder whether these ubiquitous complexities are real, or, at least in part, contrived. Luther M. Ragin, Jr. '76 Harvard Law School Class of '80 Kennedy School...