Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times Company announced yesterday afternoon that it will sue the Harvard Lampoon for $175,000 for "willful deceit, commercial libel and commercial defamation" in its March 7 Times parody...
...Club." "Deceit was Philby's life work, deceit his nature," writes le Carré, once an agent himself. Still, says le Carré, the Establishment could not bring itself to suspect Philby's loyalty, even when there was overwhelming evidence against him: "The shaming fact of Philby's continued employment is that S.I.S. quite clearly identified class with loyalty." It clung, says le Carré, to the Establishment tenet that "this Club does not elect traitors, therefore Kim is not a traitor...
...really didn't know about them, or that they didn't believe the attacks could be as widespread, as well coordinated, as strong as they were. I mean I think the American military command in South Vietnam has suffered from what one newsman called an enormous dose of self-deceit. They had begun to believe their own statistics, which is terribly dangerous when the statistics are fundamentally in error. There was no sign that these attacks were expected. Americans were on leave all over the country. The South Vietnamese Army was spread out going home...
...reporters in Saigon was so appalled at all this deceit that in the middle of all this he filed a report to his newspaper with the lead, "The Viet Cong, in an act of desperation, today took over most of South Vietman." This is about the way it looked to those of us who were there...
...Your Man of the Year is representative of all that was America in 1967-petty and grand tyranny, deceit, hate, corruption, militarism, violence of every sort, and the ulcerous pursuit of power and money. A splendid choice...