Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some sleepy-eyed Yalles made plans to greet Kennedy at the airport, but discovered the hoax after close examination of the "News." New Haven residents called the airport, and the New Haven Register said that it was forced to publish a bulletin disclaiming the rumored visit in a later edition...
Professor Lingane was handed a note explaining the situation as he entered the classroom. He was delayed for some ten minutes, after which he took the rostrum to expose the hoax. While he was making his announcement one of the "proctors" stood at the blackboard behind him marking off the time which remained for completing the exam...
...weeks ago, Vopos fired down at them with tommy guns; in another area last week, the firemen roared up to spread their nets in response to an appeal for help only to be drenched with red paint dumped on them by laughing Communists who had concocted a skillful hoax...
...idea, they said, as they "were listening to the faintly melodious sounds produced by the moving of chairs." Said Miss Bradshaw: "We dragged together all the instruments we could find and went around the studio banging them.'' She was pleased with the results. "It was a serious hoax," she said. "That fake music can be indistinguishable from the genuine is a reflection on certain trends in present-day composition...
Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...