Word: debunkment
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Occasionally in recent months he has gone on campaigns of self-depreciating humor that debunk the nature of his office?usually with the aid of Paul Keyes, a former writer and co-producer for Laugh-In. Two weeks ago at a meeting of the American Bakers Association, Agnew excused himself by remarking: "The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking." Earlier, at a Gridiron Club dinner, he described the joys of the vice-presidency. "I have my own plane?Air Force 13. It's a glider...
...ironic that no one ever thought of it before last week. The very thing that made Champi's performance so unbelievable was the thing that had to debunk his deification. He was a substitute quarterback stepping into a hero's role. The old American success story. But in America heroes don't lose. And Champi knew when he came back to pre-season drills that he couldn't match his clippings. He admitted it. Harvard undergraduates knew it. Yovicsin, his staff, and Champi's teammates knew it. But the Boston papers chose to ignore...
...more tempered, on civil disorders. Both directly and by implication, he disputed the President's riot-commission findings. "A major deficiency" of the report, he said, is its "tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone except the rioters." Disputing the commission's attempt to debunk the notion that riots are planned by extremists, Nixon in a radio-network speech alluded to conspiracies to ignite next summer. Only a combination of efforts can avert racial upheavals, Nixon said, and he attributed equal importance to bringing "the American dream to the ghetto" and preparing "to meet force...
...Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes contemporary values, and that, suggests Fiedler, is also the aim of the hippie...
...former Vice President's cardinal rule has been to treat fellow Republicans as lovingly as an election year will allow. He praised Romney's vigor as a campaigner; he also did his bit to debunk the stalking-horse theory. Romney's withdrawal, he said, "was not designed to stop Nixon. It was designed to save Romney from a defeat...