Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half of the title represents the time allotted to a forward looking Nazi shrink (Rod Taylor) for extracting Allied invasion plans from an American intelligence officer (James Garner). His plot: drug Garner, then convince him (with a most elaborate hoax set) that he has had amnesia for six years, is in the tender loving hands of victorious Americans, and can only regain his memory through a "therapy" which consists of telling everything he can remember--i.e. the details of D-Day strategy. If this new-fangled ploy founders, Garner gets turned over to the pudgy S.S. man waiting...
...Ross felt they had proved their point that the press was out "to amuse rather than inform." "In their haste to present stories that are eye-catching and entertaining, too many of the news media have sacrificed accuracy in their reporting," they decreed in a statement explaining the hoax...
Hearing a radio report that a student at American International College had set a new record by remaining in a shower for 15 hours, on Dec. 10 Richard Wideman and Yan M. Ross set out to plan the Great Shower Hoax...
...poems, particularly The Waste Land, confused many established critics, enraged others. Christopher Morley even suggested that The Waste Land, and its celebrated six pages of notes, was a hoax. W. B. Yeats found Eliot's poems flat, unrhythmical, colorless, "working without apparent imagination." But years later, Rose Macaulay recalled The Waste Land's first impact: "Beyond and through the dazzling, puzzling technique, the verbal fascination, the magpie glitter of the borrowed and adapted phrases that brought a whole chorus of literature into service, enriching and extending every theme-beyond and through all this there was the sharp sense...
...That so-called Highlanders' rebellion [Oct. 2]-is it only the word of the Viet Cong? Or are we witnessing another "Buddhist"-type hoax in which the Viet Cong agents are agitating while the policymakers of the State Department are encouraging them in an attempt to exploit the situation as a pretext for taking advantage of their position as "allies" to install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent to the "Buddhist" hoax...