Word: hoaxes
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...bomb threat in Holyoke Center proved to be a hoax yesterday after the building had been partially evacuated and searched by police...
While Fulbright asked valid questions about whether the South Vietnamese will be able to hold off the Communists and what Nixon will do if they cannot, other Democratic doves hurled overstated broadsides. Iowa Senator Harold Hughes called Vietnamization "a semantic hoax," adding, acidly, that it is "simply an extension of the Johnson for eign policy." South Dakota Senator George McGovern termed it "an effort to tranquilize the conscience of the American people while our Government wages a cruel and needless war by proxy." He even charged peevishly that the Administration was using the Pentagon to attack his patriotism...
...cruel hoax was perpetrated on the contestant, spectators, and Aunt Jemima at Wednesday's first annual Quincy House Pancake Eating Contest, The official winner, the Raccoon, admitted that an integral part, in fact the only part, of his training had been smoking a drug known as marijuana. He also said that he had had two joints before the contest...
...Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney," who enthusiastically confess in a chatty little Forward how they overcame being 'handicapped by near-fatal hangovers and the loss of all our bodily hair (but that's another story).' Another story, indeed! For between this brace of leering parentheses, the whole hoax is revealed. Obviously, the Beard-Kenney persona is just a fictional mask, created by the Real Author in hopes that by hinting at the Ivy League counterpart of a Capote-and-Vidal collaboration, the value of his book's movie rights will escalate astronomically...
...these are only pieces of Mr. Hyland's exercise in personal catharisis and public outrage. I confess that when I first read it. I didn't know whether it was meant to be taken seriously. Was it some kind of hoax? If I wanted to look through the literature and find an example of mindless, gastric-juice romanticism. I couldn't have found a better example. If I quoted it to my class, the students would think I'd made it up. It's the kind of piece-along with the accompanying report on the CFIA-that one is ordinarily...