Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiastic ghost hunter named Harry Price, its infamy had spread throughout the nation. Harry Price, an affable hobbyist of independent means, was far and away Britain's best-known investigator of psychic phenomena. His books on the subject were legion and readable, and his spectacular exposures of fake spiritualists were invariably good for pages of newspaper copy...
...Animal Farm, the best anti-Communist satire yet written, and that nightmare about Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Keep the Aspidistra Flying-which appeared in England in 1936 but has never before been published in the U.S., is a sharply satirical attack on the left-wing intellectuals and fake-proletarian martyrs of the '305. Thus, in a sense, it is about yesterday's battle; yet it is also more timely than ever, for only lately has the world begun to understand that it is the little comrades who pave the way for Big Brother...
...foolish part on the stage in a presentation called Lola Montez in Bavaria. When a performance went wrong in Philadelphia, she knew whom to blame. The conductor, she stormed, had smuggled Jesuits into the orchestra to sabotage her dance. So it went all round the world-lawsuits, horsewhippings, fake suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense, her stage appearance was a franker, more...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh, a satire on Englishmen in World War II, was very funny when it roasted spivs and fake heroes, but Tory Waugh was really a sad man when he wrote this fine book. It was about the impulses that make men rise to moral bigness, the disillusionment which comes in the discovery that sacrifices cannot do much to change other humans' natures. It was almost a dirge on the softening of England's national character...
Speaking at a crowded meeting sponsored by the Young Democrats Club in Winthrop Junior Common Room, Schlesinger first attacked the Republicans' "egregious fake slogans," such as "massive atomic retaliation," "agonizing reappraisal," and "the spirit of Geneva," which, he claimed, tend to create the impression that all our problems have been solved...