Word: dishonestly
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...fact that Harvard made a fundamental change in the personnel structure under the guise of an administrative improvement is dishonest and reprehensible. The issue is that Harvard maintains that unions of University employees should be University-wide, and opposes bargaining units of a more limited scope, such as the one the Medical Area Employees Organizing Committee is presently trying to create in that area...
...sidelines-view of University politics which I was afforded (and the complaints I was privy to) gave two lasting impressions; it was generally petty and generally bitter. The occasional shiftless or dishonest fellow administrator was perhaps more aggravating than students, who were at least sincere. But these administrators hid behind a shield of respectability unavailable to students. While students felt they had to work outside the system, some administration felt they could go underneath...
Nolen does not believe that Miss Kuhlman and many other faith healers are consciously dishonest. But he has no use for the psychic surgeons who "operate" in the Philippines, often on desperate patients who have spent plenty of money to get there. He watched several of these sleight-of-hand artists scratch their patients with deftly concealed mica flecks to give the impression that they had made incisions by sheer psychic energy. Nolen also discovered that the healers simulated blood with betel-nut juice, and quickly disposed of all tissues supposedly removed during their operations to prevent laboratory analysis...
...film makers were at pains to include footage in which Joplin talks about "feeling good." She comes off like Little Miss Good vibes, a wild flower of the love generation who wilted for reasons unspecified. Far worse than being merely sentimental, Janis is dishonest, dishonoring her talent by dismissing the personal turmoil that underscored...
...there's an indirect critique of society here as well. For people who feel trapped in places where connections are dishonest and grappling, Betts cuts loose to the rootlessness of the road. Then he heads somewhere, to a place where human contact is open and real, people waiting on the front porch. And yet on the road there's nothing romanticized and self-conscious in the Rambler, not even anything individual--just freedom searching for a community...