Word: hogwash
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...have a firm opinion on the Hiss case will have difficulty in arriving at a critical decision about Whittaker Chambers' Witness. If they feel Hiss is innocent, they will consider the book hogwash. If they feel Hiss is guilty they will hail the book as a testament of faith, a saga of heroism, a magnificent tragedy, a seering political analysis, and a prophetic warning...
...unusually fraudulent advertising campaign has promised that this picture depicts "the mob that defied the Kefauver Committee" and reveals the shocking truth about "those sixteen unsolved murders." This is hogwash in the best ad-man tradition; the film states that any relation to real persons or places is purely coincidental. But "The Mob" still has plenty to recommend it in Crawford's excellent acting, its snappy dialogue in the best Raymond Chandler style, and the constant suspense of characters in double roles. After an hour or so of general mayhem in alleys, bars, cheap hotels, and black sedans...
...there is an even more unfortunate aspect of the situation. While Harvard is prostituting its standards under the thin veneer of the scholar-athlete hogwash, it is highly unlikely that it will get a good football team. This year's freshman juggernaut is a case in point. For months indignant howls have been raised about Harvard's going "professional." The best refutation of this charge is the fact that the freshman team, composed largely, I have no doubt, of scholar-athletes, has a record that is, if possible below the Harvard norm. Paul S. Aipers...
Buckley's Christianity and individualism are both queer animals. He condemns, for example (in detailing the Godlessness of Yale's student organizations) a magazine whose position is that "the Christian philosophy is the most adequate, the most persuasive, the most conducive to understanding." Hogwash, says Buckley: "...such a utilitarian conception of Christianity, coupled with...steadfast refusal to proclaim Christianity as the true religion (which is what all genuine Christian leaders proclaim it to be...) is a sample of the adulteration of religion to the point that it becomes nothing more than the basis for 'my most favorite way of living...
...around Chicago, the Tribune is bought and read strictly for the comic strips. The rest of the paper, in particular the editorials, would be funny if the whole thing wasn't so sad, unfortunately so because there are undoubtedly many people who read the colonel's hogwash and believe...