Word: hoax
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...heel design of shoes worn by R.A.F. cadets. All officers were requested to turn in their shoes at the porter's lodge for a check by the makers. Eventually, as the pile of used footgear mounted, suspicions were aroused, questions asked, gossip exchanged. Could the perpetrator of the hoax have been the heir to the British throne, now in training at Cranwell? Said a Buckingham Palace spokesman: "I'm afraid it was." The R.A.F. plans no disciplinary action against Prince Charles...
...done. Somebody had to do it. We were the six." Said Major Walter Kinard: "We looked for anything that would prove Lieut. Calley innocent. We gave Lieut. Calley every benefit of doubt." Somberly Major Harvey Brown confessed: "I wanted to believe it didn't happen, that it was a hoax. I'll have to live with this verdict the rest of my life...
Without making any judgments. Reichman shows how the subculture's beginnings in the Flower Generation-Universal Love phenomenon moved into the great hoax of transcendental meditation, and from there into alienation, separation, and death. The play is structured, to use Reichman's word, like a fugue. Vignettes of life in the drug culture interrupt each other, are occasionally broken by chants, and sometimes take place in total darkness. Yet the interweaving of characters and their stories is not discordant; rather it makes the progression through time and action more like the drug experience itself, with rapid changes in focus, intense...
...involved in political intrigues to get an antiwar candidate whom the moderates and conservatives can like. And they'll probably express concern that the conduct of the Vietnamese elections this year under the Thieu-Ky regime is democratic even though political intimidation and exclusion have made those elections a hoax even now. All right-the war must be opposed on all levels, but while all that money and power is being bled into the American political viper the military destruction of Asia will continue...
...Santa Claus is white? That's a little hard to accept. A couple of New York department stores have apparently caught on. They have hired a black Santa and a white Santa. This makes it a bit more obvious to the bright child that Santa just might be a hoax, but it's a nice gesture...