Word: faked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from play form to unadulterated cinema, but is faithful to the captivating Thurber theme. Noisy Actor Carson is a natural for his Piltdown role. His best scene: demonstrating-in the professor's living room, with the professor's best china-his sensational new football play: a fake fake...
...another, the orchestra played The Fireman's Quadrille, during which a fire alarm clanged, men in helmets dragged in hoses, doused real water on fake blaze. Such was unmusical America of the 19th Century, as portrayed by David Ewen in Music Comes to America (Thomas Y. Crowell; $3). Picturing a young nation's groping progress toward musical maturity, the story is by turns comic, valiant, humiliating, prideful. No scholarly treatise, not even an error-free* record, the book is none the less an engrossing, vivid history (as Mark Sullivan might tell it) of music's impact...
...raid was complete with its fake casualties and bomb fires. The janitor's office was the scene of great excitement as runners came in from the different entries with news of fires that had broken out. The messengers had been given sealed orders on which the "incidents" had been printed, and at the signal, the orders were opened and proper action was taken...
...dangerous for a country at war. On the other hand, the business of the fourth estate is to give news, and right now what people want to read is War news. Without the full cooperation of the government, however, the press is on the spot; it has to fake column-six stories from one-inch Army or Navy communiques...
...Bluebook blues" is not only a fake malady. Exams only intensify what Dr. Bock believes are the ever-present problems of the undergraduate. "Year after year we try to explain, but they don't listen to us," he said. They stay up all night, feeding on coffee, coca-cola, caffein tablets, and benzedrine sulfate." If students would go to bed around 11 o'clock instead of cramming. Dr. Bock feels that they would do better on the exams next morning...