Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange, hilarious blend of cupidity, cowardice and braggadocio that was Fields and that made him an immortal parody of conventional American male values. The forces that formed him are lost in the dark reaches of a youth he tried not merely to hide but to falsify in order to mislead would-be inquirers. By the time the movie takes up his story, there is nothing to be learned about Fields' past that would be helpful in explaining what one cares about, which is his unique...
...other hand--and this is a far larger concern--what can be accomplished by misleading the media? By now it seems cliche merely to point to certain human realities of the media, including their accessibility to those who would mislead them. Simply to demonstrate the gullability of any human system is, in the final analysis, meaningless. A far more worthwhile program would be to emphasize the need for truthfulness and straightforwardness by all media users, even at the risk of not making self-fulfilling prophesies. John O. Northrop Despina Vodantis Birmingham, Alabama Board of Education...
...lambasting Byrd but by launching a flanking attack on a personal target-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He accuses Kissinger of "lying in his teeth" when the Secretary soft-pedaled violations of nuclear arms agreements by the U.S.S.R., of running "a secret, Metternichian policy that seeks to mislead, not to lead, and of "creating peace in our time by pushing disaster into our children's future." The Admiral's assault seems an odd political tactic since Byrd, also a supporter of the Pentagon, has not taken any stand for or against Kissinger's policies. Nevertheless, veteran Virginia...
...Dean Sacks has apparently seen himself in an adversarial role with students in this matter. This, despite the fact that students first approached the Dean for information and advice. Unfortunately, Dean Sacks chose to mince his words and mislead us, stalling for tactical advantage--good lawyering, perhaps, but hardly a way for members of a university community to deal with one another. Ira A. Burnim
...parts of it were taken almost verbatim from the ransom message delivered in the 1968 kidnaping of Barbara Jane Mackle in Georgia (see box page 13), who had indeed been buried in a box. But FBI agents theorized that Sam's abductors were stressing the Mackle resemblance to mislead police. The FBI doubted that Sam really was buried...