Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liller also favors a genuine pass-fail system, dismissing Yale's program as a mere hoax on the students. In Liller's eyes, Yale's effort--stipulating Honors, High Pass, Pass, and Fail--represents just another grading system. "A true pass-fail system would give students a chance to take some off best courses. The added freedom is important...
...takes about 20 pages to realize that Report from Iron Mountain is a skillful hoax. Who wrote it? Likely candidates were canvassed. Richard Goodwin and Economist Kenneth E. Boulding both denied authorship. An even likelier candidate, John Kenneth Galbraith, hedged. Meanwhile, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek review of Iron Mountain for Book World under a pseudonym, as is his wont...
...photographer (Ephrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has no idea where it is. To break down her story, the crooks concoct a series of elaborate disguises, posing as old men, young men, policemen and friends...
...effect of Eisenbud's documentation is to polarize opinion about the Serios affair. There seems to me to be only two opinions possible: 1) Serios is honest and his abilities are genuine; 2) Serios and Eisenbud, and some largish number of witnesses, are involved in a grand collusive hoax...
...tiny transparent positive print (though even here the question arises: Could Serios have carried on this sort of minor photoraphic cottage industry without being detected by Eisenbud, with whom he was in constant, daily contact in Denver? If not, then again it is a question of either collusive hoax or genuine talent, with no middle ground apparent.). But far too many of the thoughtographs are are either impossible to duplicate at all (if this could even be conclusively proved, for even one photo, the whole matter could, of course, be immediately resolved) or, at best, impossible to duplicate without...