Word: faked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that setting, "The Medium" is a complete musical-dramatic synthesis which absorbs its audiences as few plays or concerts ever could. The story, which like the music and lyrics is by Menotti, is a fascinating study of a fake medium who goes mad when the spirits she produces mechanically for her seances' begin to appear unasked. The opera in Menotti's hands and those of the Ballet Society is far more than the usual Metropolitan parade of dummies with voices; Menotti probes far into the characters of the degenerate medium, her mute servant and kind daughter, and the pathetic customers...
...Terrific Content." In 1927 the Cotton Club was a big, flossy Harlem joint at 143rd Street and Lenox Avenue, with bandana tablecloths, fake foliage and a reputation as a speakeasy. But Harvard and Princeton boys soon found the way there and crowded around the bandstand on weekends. They muttered sagely to each other "terrific mood, terrific content" as the Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language...
Author Guthne's mountain men-buffalo hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
...Britain might simply propose a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine- with herself as sole trustee, as in League days. (But all parties would then cry "Fake!" and Britain would be back where she started...
...years before he is allowed to practice. How many youngsters are ready to work as hard learning to draw? Yet drawing is as difficult and takes as long a training, and without it the painter is only the kind of practitioner that the doctor is who has but a fake degree. . . . Having learnt to draw, and then the relatively easier discipline of painting, let the artist express himself-if he can afford to wait so long...