Word: fake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, the documents are fake, the inspired creations of Fried's imagination. But, as Fried (under the pseudonym Julian K. Prescott, the latest member of the line) argues in his preface, they tell the sort of truth most histories, based as they are on inadequate evidence, can never quite capture. Prescott (alias Fried), who has previously revealed a similar book on the Cold War, puts it this...
position of asking for something 'special,' some 'extra' stimulation, or they somehow try to subliminally send messages to a partner who often is not even aware that he should be listening... So all too often women just do without--or fake...
...actual dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by bureaucrats who preserve him as a useful relic. He caricatures Franco propped up by his bodyguards in motorcades and at podiums, or the pathetic fake photograph of Mao swimming in the Yangtze River. His solitariness is the loneliness of power taken to its extreme and most human degree...
...says Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein. "Burt was a towering figure of 20th century psychology. I think it's a crime to cast doubt over a man's career." Professor of Educational Psychology Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley adds: "If Burt was trying to fake the data, a person with his statistical skills would have done a better job. It is a political attack. The real targets are me, Herrnstein and the whole area of research on the genetics of intelligence...
...time. He abolished the monarchy, made himself president of a republic, and installed a civilian premier who promised elections in 1974. It was an attempt to impose a Brazilian or Turkish style solution to the crisis, with the fascist junta actually retaining full power behind a facade of fake democratic procedures. It was, of course, again vocally rejected by democratic public opinion and political leaders. The students were also promised elections for university students councils, but under the control of government-appointed committees. This too was repeatedly rejected by student general assemblies in all schools. Still the government refused...