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...disguise themselves, and reserves the right to do so again.) As Patterson and his fellow judges groped their way through these ethical thickets, James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York Times was worried that they might be getting too moralistic. So he volunteered a distinction between pretense and deceit. Reporters often pretend to know more than they do, he said, to get a source to tell the full story; that's O.K. Deceit is the more elaborate subterfuge the Sun-Times practiced. Having ingested this bit of Talmudic Calvinism, the judges gave the Pulitzer to someone else...
Judged by Le Misanthrope, the engagements should be a success for France's mission civilisatrice. In telling the story of Alceste, a man torn between hatred of the world's deceit and flattery and his own love for a deceitful, flattering widow named Célimène, Molière pressed poetic comedy and satiric wit to the edge of tears. Le Misanthrope is his bittersweet masterpiece. In a comedy of manners, Alceste's notion of telling the truth himself on all occasions and correcting the chicanery of the age clearly marks him as a crackpot...
...know with whom this obscene parody of social concern originated. I am ashamed to think that my own class is producing people who think nothing of employing deceit and insincerity in the name of sound, responsible business practice. I am more encouraged, however, by the incompetence of their efforts. Such is the transparency of this grotesque ploy...
...focus has been shifted from young Pip to the vindictive harridan who teaches him his first lesson in cruelty and deceit. In Miss Havisham's Fire we see her on her calamitous wedding day, deserted by her bridegroom. (The young Miss Havisham is sung by Gianna Rolandi, who has a generous mad scene of her own.) There is a brushstroke plot involving an inquest into Miss Havisham's death, but the opera is really a star vehicle for a coloratura. Argento had Beverly Sills in mind when he began work two years ago. She agreed...
What about the deceit and lawbreaking such enterprise requires? Brother Andrew replies that God's command to evangelize takes precedence over Marxist law. But he insists that he has never lied at the border. "If they ask me, 'Do you have any Bibles?' I'll just smile and say, 'Yes, a lot!' But I pray hard before I go that they won't ask me that question...