Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writing in America, a Jesuit weekly, Film Critic Moira Walsh last week anathematized Hollywood's biblical epics as "disedifying and even antireligious," and called King of Kings "the culmination of a gigantic fraud perpetuated by the film industry on the moviegoing public." Noting that the film has been criticised by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency as "theologically, historically and scripturally inaccurate," she adds: "Christ is there as a physical presence, but His spirit is absent . . . There is not the slightest possibility that anyone will derive from the film any meaningful insight into what Christ's life...
...more a drug is touted as a cure for cancer, the more likely it is to be an example of fraud or quackery. But a few drugs do slow or even halt, for varying periods, the course of some kinds of cancer. The manufacturers of these products firmly specify that they have no cure; they do not want to raise false hope. And even among the most useful of cancer palliative drugs, most are not available for general prescription by all doctors; they are limited to ''investigational'' use by research physicians...
Placenta & Plankton. FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick singled out one large area of fraud: "There is extensive, big-time quackery in the cosmetics field, generally based on the exploitation of some 'miracle' ingredient that is supposed to restore youth and beauty to the unattractive or aging skin." Sample miracle workers: "human placenta residues, plankton from the water of a certain spring in France, pig skin extract, shark oil and orchid pollen...
...Impoundment of quack remedies offered through the mails. Postmaster General J. Edward Day said he was planning to use this attack on a medical fraud when he is confident his case is so strong that the courts will uphold...
...platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of antibiotics, it will scarcely lift an eyebrow, let alone carry a play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed. What is far from dated is Ibsen's meticulous craftsmanship, his gift for probing character in depth, his passion for a morality that is more than a residue...