Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Nixon is nearly so Oriental as Senator George Aiken, who half seriously suggested that the U.S. end the war by simply declaring itself the victor and pulling out. The ancient Greeks would have understood even that. Wrote Aeschylus: "God is not opposed to deceit in a righteous cause...
Today's consumer is better educated than his forebears and thus less willing to accept the exaggerated salesmanship, misleading advertising, shoddy goods and even bits of deceit that buyers once considered natural hazards of commerce. He is justifiably confused by product guarantees written in incomprehensible legalese, by conflicting claims
Tart Seduction. Connery is the first male, a prideful master carpenter who takes for granted that woman was created solely for his pleasure. He matter-of-factly lies to all his ladies, including his daughter (Calder-Marshall). That deceit permanently estranges them, indurates her heart against all men and sets up Segment No. 2: her confrontation with Caine. Michael plays a reptilian charmer, the acknowledged sultan of the typing pool. Or he was until challenged by Calder-Marshall, who decides to wreak vengeance on the whole gender of womanizers by giving Caine "one in the eye for every girl...
Usually, the new terms are not nearly as much fun as the old. There is something very reassuring in the knowledge that badgers from a cete, and not a deceit as do lapwings. What could be more prophetic than Henry the Eighth's contemporaries pointing out a superfluity of nuns and an abominable sight of monks...
Mark was able to disguise these unpleasant truths, Brandon contends, because he sincerely believed that Jesus was "the son of God, incarnated to accomplish mankind's salvation." A theological polemicist rather than a biographer, he was thus able to adjust some facts and ignore others without any conscious deceit. As an example of Mark's revisionist writing, Brandon cites the use of one apparently authentic saying of Jesus: "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." In the context of Mark's Gospel, it implies...