Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea that Mopworth's insistent sex life is really a compensation for repressed homosexual leanings. Retorts Mopworth: "Your constant unmasking of me masks a deep-seated fear of being unmasked yourself." He struggles heroically. But, as in the original Inquisition, forgiveness can only be bought with a fake admission of guilt. "It's nothing to be ashamed of," wheedles the girl, offering absolution. "It's all, after...
Tennis Star Gardnar Mulloy spent an afternoon on the court, called it "the best indoor court I've ever played on." Though Mulloy found that the fake grass fibers slow the court a fraction too much to suit a top-ranked player, he pronounced it "about as ideal a surface as you could have for the average player...
...probes the struggles of an extraordinary and complex "contemporary man"--Quentin, a lawyer--to attain one moment of perfect contentment, to reach home after long and stormy wanderings, to arrive at the truth--or at least his truth ("Speak truth, not decency. I curse the whole high administration of fake innocence! I declare it; I am not innocent--nor good...
Belly Dance. Determined to find out just how the light lure works, Dr. Schaller made dummy females and lit them from inside with tiny electric bulbs. When the dummy's light duplicated the yellow-green of the live females, Lampyris males were attracted to the fake female as readily as to the real. Yellow light excited them even more, while red, green and blue light left them indifferent. Only an overanxious few were attracted by lights of the wrong size or shape...
...Teachers College. Announcing that he will become acting Dean of the College, Mr. Pusey comments, "I'd like to find out what's really happening in the College." As a Hallowe'en boax, the Lampoon distributes a parody of the Harvard Lampoon, which is, however, instantly spotted as a fake because, as one student says, "it was funny...