Word: deceitfully
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...Cantor's interpretation of Ibsen's two-act drama emphasizes the playwright's humor, lightening up a script that tends toward the didactic. The Pillars of Society concerns one seemingly model family whose patriarch must admit to his actual deceit when the family's "black sheep" return home to clear their own names. The title refers to this false moral leader. Karsten Bernick, and his business cohorts, who pursue personal profits under the banner of working for the common good. They are supported by their equally hypocritical wives, members of an aid society for fallen women who are more dedicated...
...poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that his novels are not so much about sex as about love-God's love for sinful humans. Like biblical stories of adultery and incest, he argues, they demonstrate how God "draws straight with crooked lines." Greeley's attackers charge that...
...Senate last week passed a budget resolution purporting to hold down 1983 deficit spending to no more than $103.9 billion, but not even the legislators seemed to believe in what they were doing. Admitted New York's Democratic Congressman Theodore Weiss: "It's a package wrapped in deceit, based on phony figures, erroneous assumptions and questionable projections." For its part, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that the budget would be at least $116.4 billion in the red next year, the highest in U.S. history...
...often happens, the gifts one chooses for oneself can be too costly. Incensed taxpayers fired off 20,000 letters of protest, calling the tax break a backdoor pay raise on members' salaries of $60,662.50. Agreed Congressman Lawrence DeNardis of Connecticut: "It was outright legislative fraud and deceit...
...first place, as he admits quite freely, we robbed a people of the right to self-determination by preventing elections in the 1950s. "The main reason for opposing these elections was that they would in all probability have resulted in a victory for Ho Chi Minh," not through deceit but because "possibly 80 percent of the population would have voted" for him. (The problem, says Podhoretz, is that though he would have been democratically chosen he would not have ruled democratically. It is an interesting argument, that people should not be permitted in free and open balloting to support...