Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have stated that the Republican mock convention held at Brooklyn College nominated Barry Goldwater. As a delegate to the convention I would like to inform you that, though Senator Goldwater led in the first-ballot strength, Ambassador Lodge clinched the nomination on the second ballot...
Among dozens of other mock Republican conventions held on U.S. college campuses this spring...
...Ruby out to play himself on the psychodrama stage. Predictably, Judge Brown refused. Moreno also had asked former Defense Counsel Melvin Belli to re-enact his own part. Belli accepted, then failed to show. But every role had volunteers, and though members of the audience who sat as a mock jury took no vote, their consensus was plain: if the Dallas jury box had been packed with psychiatrists, Ruby would have been found "insane...
...cluster of egregious flops in the span of a couple of years," he declares in a sweeping judgment on the recent works of such eminent names as Katherine Anne Porter, Mary McCarthy, Bernard Malamud and James Baldwin. "There are various ways to declare the death of the novel: to mock it while seeming to emulate it, like Nabokov or John Barth ... or to explode it, like William Burroughs, to leave only twisted fragments of experience and the miasma of death...
...Striving friends of theirs think they are "lazy" or "only hurting themselves" and give them solicitous advice, Scoffers in turn fell superior to such more disciplined academics. They mock people who spend all their time in the library and call studying "lonely...