Word: faux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will little Oedipus escape from his complex? The answer is a real skirt-hanger, suggesting every known perversion, until the happy ending when boy rinds a girl like Mom. The Cocteau-film atmosphere of high camp is sustained by skilled faux-simple prose, which at times evokes Heinrich Mann, at other times less skilled practitioners of psychologically sophisticated pornophilia...
Bitos commits a characteristic faux pas by appearing in full costume. This also attests the nature of the man, a small-minded, bloody-minded egotist, seething with inner fury and monumentally insecure, inflexible and prideful. Maxime and his friends hate Bitos for his lowly origins, for the brainy diligence that made him first in school and for the fanaticism with which he is hounding and executing wartime collaborationists...
...Employees. In Washington, New Frontier chieftains were busy spreading the word. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, who had made a faux pas early in the Kennedy Administration when his name appeared on a Democratic fund-raising note to oil and gas industry executives, now sent a memo to all "Heads of Bureaus and Offices" in his far-flung department. The solicitation was part of a "Government-wide campaign," said Udall, adding: "I am sure we are all eager to contribute our share toward this building in his honor. ... As in other campaigns, your chairman should submit a weekly performance report...
...Comme il ne faux...
Years ago, a brash young man, visiting in the Beacon Street home of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, asked his host how it felt to be both a Lowell and a Cabot. The question was greeted with thunderous silence. The guest tried manfully to excuse his faux pas. "I'm afraid," he murmured, "that's a pretty silly question, Mr. Cabot." Replied Cabot: "Young man. it's the damnedest silliest question I've been asked in 80 years...