Word: hoaxing
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...bomb scare that abruptly ended former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro's speech at the Law School Wednesday night was a hoax, Harvard Police said yesterday...
...March 12, The Crimson carried a frontpage story, gruesome in content, that I believe to have involved a vicious hoax...
...Daily Princetonian says the Lampoon had nothing to do with the hoax, which was a huge failure. Meanwhile, a University of Pennsylvania debating society has also claimed responsibility for the prank...
...year ago, Doris Lessing made the startling announcement that she had recently written two novels published under the pseudonym of Jane Somers. She said that she had engineered this hoax to demonstrate how hard it is for new authors to gain an audience. She also wanted an unprejudiced response to her fiction, "to get free of that cage of associations and labels that every established writer has to learn to live inside." This may seem a rather downbeat response to a worldwide reputation, but the point is valid. Lessing's reviewers and readers, familiar with such works as The Golden...
...When the daughter makes noises about the revolution and duty, the mother calmly responds: "You spend your life exactly as I did. Cooking and nannying for other people. An all-purpose female drudge." This assessment of Alice's labors is both accurate and staggeringly bleak. Surely another hoax is at hand? Perhaps Doris Lessing has allowed her name to be used as a pseudonym by some elderly, reactionary male? Not likely. The Good Terrorist has its share of flaws, but Lessing's intelligence and stern conscience come through loud and clear...