Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thoroughgoing romantic about art. He meets Tancred Saraceni, the world's foremost restorer of old masterpieces, and confesses a secret desire to become a painter himself. The trouble is, Francis adds, he does not find the methods of any contemporary artists compatible. Saraceni replies: "Don't try to fake the modern manner if it isn't right for you. Find your legend. Find your personal myth...
...police morgue who is presented with a body and told to figure out how it died." The first step, which proved to be fairly easy, was to demonstrate that the manuscript had been in the Bodleian for centuries, that there was no possibility of its being a modern fake. No less important was the evidence that other works in the collection had been attributed without error to such poets as Robert Herrick and Ben Jonson. Then came the search for what Taylor calls "forensic evidence of a literary kind . . . stylistic fingerprints...
...author is not an especially convincing cynic. His sustained interest is in power and reputation in the literary world. He yearns to be "a real great writer," not a "fake great man" like his father, Harold Spender, a journalist, biographer and author of books on government and mountaineering. Sir Stephen addressed the issue in his poem The Public Son of a Public Man: "When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,/ I was your son, high on your horse,/ My mind a top whipped by the lashes/ Of your rhetoric, windy of course." Auden cut a more attractive father...
...year the NRC approved the NEI's request to hire the Wackenhut Corp. to test security at the nation's plants. Such exercises--suspended after 9/11, pending improvements--resumed last fall. Each plant is to be tested once every three years, which means the British-owned Wackenhut is running fake attacks twice a month...
...exam." No one in the industry has forgotten that just before a mock attack against a DOE facility in 2003, Wackenhut "attackers" tipped off Wackenhut guards about the particulars of the drill. Under the new rules, NRC referees are supposed to pay close attention to ensure that Wackenhut's fake attackers aren't holding back when they launch a mock strike against a plant Wackenhut workers are defending. "It's going to be pretty obvious if the adversary force is taking it easy," says Richard Michau, president of Wackenhut's nuclear-services division. The NRC's Diaz says hiring Wackenhut...