Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above the U.S. The steel was rushed to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. Mass., where a 6-lb. piece was cut off. The rest went to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico to be tested for radioactivity. Last week, skeptics, who had all along suspected a hoax, got an official disappointment: the steel really came from a Sputnik...
...heart, in which love is not an emotion but a deity. Its creed was faith in the miracle of man's individuality, his capacity for delight in beauty, in spring, in flowers, in girls. Its galaxy of devils, which grew as Cummings observed the modern world ("a hoax of clocks and calendars"), included dry intellects, science, mass thought, security worship, Sigmund Freud-everything inside man or outside him that tends to limit his individualism, to reduce his sense of wonder. The opposition was total...
Chicanery? Last week Vienna art circles were in a quandary about the Verlon-Verkauf affair. The critics-including Dr. Hofmann-did not withdraw their praise for the collages, but Verkauf's elaborate hoax did seem to smack of chicanery. If Painter X can promote himself under the name of Dealer Y, Dr. Hofmann pointed out, he could carry the process one step farther and create a demand for Painter X by buying him under the name of Collector Z. Says Hofmann: "The unknown painter who buys his own works at auction to increase their value is not unknown...
...years in obscurity, and when he died last week, at 64, poisoned by fumes from a gas heater in a seedy Long Beach, Calif., apartment, few could even recall his name. But for eight heady days in 1924, Sanford Jarrell had brightened New York with the wildest news paper hoax of the jazz...
...even the Trib was getting nervous. Jarrell left the office, sent back a messenger with his confession. The belittlers, he admitted, were not the only ones who had stayed at home. He himself had never left shore. "Mr. Jarrell," blushed the Trib, a week after it had trumpeted the hoax, "has been dishonorably dismissed...