Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous reigning style of U.S. art, abstract expressionism, artists ventured so deeply into their own minds that what was considered to be art was what looked least like the external world. Some was fresh, some was fraud, some was Freud, and quite a lot of it was an artistic withdrawal syndrome, a turning away from the calamitous Depression that the social realism of the 1930s pitilessly explored, and from the war that followed. But the young abstract expressionists showing this year are few and-by comparison with such "Old Masters" as Pollock, Kline and De Kooning-lackluster. By the evidence...
...PROMISSORY FRAUD: A swindle in which the culprit made or implied a false promise of future action, but cannot be convicted of any crime under existing law, because he did not lie about present facts...
...count and that safflower oil is worthless. But Taller's own fat was really in the fire when it came out that he apparently had a financial interest in a safflower-pill manufacturer endorsed in the book. That, said a Federal indictment filed last week, amounts to mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. If convicted, pudgy Taller faces a maximum of 239 years of good starchy prison fare...
...unfair competition. Its reasoning: once the patent on a product no longer exists, anyone has the right to make an exact copy-and should not be restrained from doing so by state unfair-competition laws. The court thus overruled all the states' protective laws, except against outright fraud, and declared open season on any products not protected by patents or trade names. Consumer groups hailed the ruling as heralding lower prices, but manufacturers were not so ecstatic. They fear that the ruling will mean a return to fierce competition, believe that companies will be less likely to work...
Dodd argued that "any objective person" reading the report "would have to conclude that the accounts of massive persecution of the Buddhist religion were, at the best, vastly exaggerated, and at the worst a sordid propaganda fraud. We were told that the Diem government was guilty of such brutal religious persecution that innocent Buddhist monks were driven to commit suicide in protest. Now it turns out that the agitation was essentially political." Concludes Dodd: "What this all adds up to is that the American people have once again been grievously misinformed by some of their newspapers on a foreign situation...