Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter complained of Bok's dilemma in inviting President Reagan to speak at Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration in the fall of 1986. In the fake letter, Bok expressed concern over granting Reagan an honorary degree. Bok insulted professors who would protest such a move and said his last hope was that Reagan would just claim he is unworthy of such a degree so that he could participate in the celebration without receiving a degree...
...think my parents ever figured movies would be something I'd succeed at. But they were both very accommodating. My dad would tolerate my movies if I kept my grades up. My mom let me off school at least once a week. I would fake being sick on Mondays so I could cut the movies I'd shot over the weekend. I'd put the thermometer up to the light bulb -- young Elliot does the same thing in E.T. -- and call her in and moan and groan. She'd play along and say, "My God, you're burning...
That view may be too optimistic. A major obstacle is the booming trade in phony documents. Fake driver's licenses sell in Los Angeles for $60 to $65 each. Doctored "green cards" go for as little as $25 apiece. Nothing in Simpson's new bill requires employers to take responsibility for the authenticity of such documents, although the Senator says that he would also favor, under certain circumstances, the introduction of a new tamperproof Social Security card. Barring such a sweeping development, employer sanctions seem likely, if anything, to give the phony-documents industry a further < boost. Thus Simpson also...
...cacophony of today's voices, Kanfer, a senior editor of TIME, invents some delightful ones of his own: an aging sleight-of-hand artist called the Wizard, who sets up a fake country; an oil-rich emir who produces a TV sitcom to sell his political message with reworked Borscht Belt shtick; a splendidly confused interpreter who adores women's legs and finds his paradise among the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Serious evil--the garage sale of the title --lurks here too, and the hero, a TV newsman, finds, as so many innocent investigators do these days, that...
...Mathes Fake '65. Falco '65 worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee on juvenile delinquency and as Assistant Secretary of state for narcotics matters. She has been published in a number of periodicals on drug-redated issues and she was a trustee of Radcliffe College for 12 years...