Word: faked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South. Part of a spreading anti-Catholic campaign against Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy, the document purports to be the oath of the Knights of Columbus, a 1,000,000-member fraternal order of Roman Catholic men (Kennedy is a member). Sample quote from one version of the fake oath: * "I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth...
...awake until 4 a.m. (Her clients, who need the money, don't mind if she wakes them.) In her file of 5,000 aspiring actors, Sally can find almost any type that walks and a few that crawl-and if she can't turn up a fake McCoy, she goes out and finds a real...
...originally agreed to give his wife Lise an "amicable divorce" in return for withdrawal of her demand for $240 a month for support. But now, he said, his wife was making it difficult for him to see their nine-year-old son, and "I realized that if my fake divorce goes through, I may never see my son again...
...deliberate-an esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate. Peter De Vries's brilliant parody takes account of this and gives fair warning to those who attempt to write Sartoris Resartus; it may be easy to fake the Spanish moss but not the tree it grows...
...with the placid present. The Indians are soon corrupted by the liquor that Jerrod's father illegally sells them. Civilization intrudes in other ways; a hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author Leahy's Indians prove too willing victims of civilization...