Word: hogwash
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Your concise summary of the double fakery known as McCarthyism [TIME, June 29] is the definitive statement on the subject and avoids the hogwash which has too frequently been slopped over this issue from both sides. There is a rational, honorable position precisely between the European neutralists' phony worry over American freedoms and the Senator's phony picture of our subversion...
...American Negro, 1953 will walk right up the middle of every main street in America . . . You have done us all a great service and you have done it without a trace of precocity or philosophical hogwash...
Many student practitioners of twelve-tone music pervert it to either intellectual hogwash or emotional hash. But Paul Knudson, in his Lyric Suite, produced a series of diversified, well-calculated effects ranging from desolation to jaunty self-confidence. And a little ditty by Christian Wolff, For Piano II, was notable for its extremely disjointed phrases, its bare, unornamented texture, and its utilization of the piano's percussive sonorities. On Monday night, Joel Mandelbaum's Piano Concerto in A received its premiere performance. Mandelbaum conducted the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and Ann Besser, to whom the work was dedicated, was soloist...
...good to know that Eisenhower wants to pull the American soldiers out of Korea, and let the South Koreans take over; most G.I.S agree with him on that score. But that this can be accomplished in a year's time is pure hogwash. It takes time, tradition and experience to build an army of 3,000,000, train them and equip them. It is plainly only wishful thinking, compounded of impatience and lack of foresight...
...need to repeat the arguments against book censorship: they are well-known. And Fox's fears that little children are going to wander into the library and pick up the Communist Manifesto or even the New World Review, thinking them the same as Crime Comics, is pure hogwash...