Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart of their effort is an IBM-supervised mock election sampling the presidential choices (including Senator Eugene McCarthy) of 4,000 presumably representative Hollanders. Says Hendrik Jan Diekerhof, 58, a retired Dutch army chaplain who runs Aktie: "The actual voting electorate in the U.S. is no more than 1½% of the world population. That 1½% decides for us in matters of war and peace, racial relations and the fight against poverty. The U.S. President meddles in our affairs. We should meddle...
Despite such mock doubts about the Minister's sanity, the National Assembly last week approved his plan, although only after a highly emotional debate. The program adds up to the most sweeping revision of higher education in France since Napoleon established the imperial university system in 1808. Aimed at preventing a renewal of the kind of riots that shut down the universities last spring, Faure's program also attacks the bureaucratic rigidity of the highly centralized system. His reform bill, which will not take full effect for at least a year, specifically indicts the "inhuman dimensions," "immobility," "isolation...
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...official censorship was greeted with rejoicing by the London theater; last week there was a mock-serious funeral service for the royal censor in Chelsea. Meanwhile, Hair's actors executed what one critic called "a triumphal dance over the grave of the Lord Chamberlain." High time. With offices in the Palace of St. James's, the Lord Chamberlain is the senior officer of the royal household. Yet he and his four readers have also played the role of arbiters of public taste, passing judgment on some 800 new scripts each year. Their esthetic qualifications have been uncertain...
...mock-seriousness he replied, "Thev're discussing whether or not the movement should be continued...