Word: deceitfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the BBC admitted the program was a deceit. Composer Zak turned out to be the head of the BBC's chamber music department, Hans Keller, and accomplice Pianist Susan Bradshaw. They got the idea, they said, as they "were listening to the faintly melodious sounds produced by the moving of chairs." Said Miss Bradshaw: "We dragged together all the instruments we could find and went around the studio banging them.'' She was pleased with the results. "It was a serious hoax," she said. "That fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine is a reflection...
What I cannot tolerate is the evidence of moral decay in our Government-deceit and dishonesty! To think that we yell to the world that the invasion is strictly Cuban, and then publicly bemoan our failure-rehash it thoroughly! This has so thoroughly disillusioned me, I'll never fully believe our leaders again. What an awful way to feel about our wonderful country...
...Face deceive victim after victim; and at the end of the play the victims must converge on the house in a thunder clap of righteous indignation. The audience should be allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger their crotches, the production may cohere. The resounding blast of broken wind which opens the show may lead to bigger and better things, instead of being the high point...
...that "passions have calmed down," wrote Basketball Expert Viktor Grigoriev, "it is time to make a sober analysis." The analysis: Spandarian had been guilty of deceit in reporting that U.S. and Soviet teams had competed as equals; he and other coaches spent too much time on paper work and not enough time on coaching-which resulted in poor discipline among the players, who conducted themselves in Rome with un-Soviet individualism while the Americans ran a happy, smooth cooperative. Moreover, top Soviet Basketball Boss Nikolai Semashko believed Spandarian's tall tales, and together they had "shelved" resolutions exposing...
...most poignant self-deceit was in expecting a closer liaison with Shaw. He incessantly reminded her of the age difference. When G.B.S. was 90 and his wife Charlotte had died, the unteachable Molly proposed to live with him, and Shaw was scandalized: "The degradation to Literature, the insult to Charlotte's memory would be such that I should be justified in shooting you if there were no other way of preventing you from crashing my gates." Yet his last postcard to her a year before his death (she died last summer) is a bit of romantic doggerel ending with...