Word: hokum
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...pride in his well-muscled, 6-ft. 3-in. physique; well into his 70s, he worked out with dumbbells. After college, he went to work on Wall Street, took with him the conviction that "all there is to economics is the law of supply and demand. The rest is hokum...
...tenure stretched by the fine acting of John Gielgud and Irene Worth, and Author Edward Albee's teasing defenses. Musicals, which made up nearly a third of the new offerings, did little better. The most literate, Oh What a Lovely War, never saw its fifth month; pure hokum promoted Baker Street toward the winner's circle, and Fiddler on the Roof, skimming the surface of a Sholom Aleichem story, became the smash of the season...
...current season, on and off Broadway, has been less distinguished for its successes-few and far between-than for the remarkable survival rate of plays that were none of them straightforward hits back when they opened. The formulas of pluck, luck or pure hokum involved were never the same, but together they make a fascinating catalogue of the remarkable methods used to make some shows...
...need critics of Jack O'Brian's caliber who see through the hokum and drivel of what passes for TV entertainment today...
...successor is what might be called political-science fiction. Its practitioners aspire to write tomes that seem just like historical novels, but in the future tense. Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe, On the Beach-they have gone from Ugly to worse and from ad hoc to pure hokum. Right along with them has gone Eugene Burdick, co-author (with different partners) of both The Ugly American and Fail-Safe, and he now tries it solo...