Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faulted Hero. But Lawrence's troubled spirit has not been allowed to rest in peace. Six years ago, Novelist Richard Aldington performed a literary autopsy on Lawrence's remains, charged that Lawrence was a downright fraud, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur whose role in the Arab revolt had been negligible. Old friends from Winston Churchill down rallied to Lawrence's defense, but the damage had been done. Lawrence's own confessions in Pillars made it clear that he had known from the beginning that the Great Powers intended to carve up the Middle East, that...
...McCall's column Stare accused the Society of "cruel and reckless fraud" in linking white bread with cancer, heart disease, mental illness, and dental cavities. The Society stated this belief in an "open letter," signed by John D. Pearmain '13, which it sent to President Pusey...
...Single Pebble. Wilderness, Warren's latest, is another black box. To conceal the fact that it has only 65,000 words, Random House spaced it out to 310 pages by means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast...
...What are the immediate blast areas?" he asked. "That's us in Cambridge, New York, Los Angeles. Students will be the ones to suffer, but they are not being told. There's a real quality of fraud in the present public relations effort for people in the blast areas...
...Maggots. Haled into court for fraud, Matthew Gorer does not defend himself; instead, he lectures the court and the public on the arid conventionality of a society that accepts art only if it has been certified by recognized authorities. "So to show you what's going on I set about painting a picture which everyone would praise without fail, for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to show up the pundits and the cranks, the speculators and the snobs, the whole bunch of maggots...