Word: mock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this huggermuggery was to enable executives from Standard Oil of New Jersey and its Humble Oil subsidiary to get a secret peek at the mock-up of a gas-station sign that will probably become familiar to millions of American motorists. After two years of intensive sorting and musing, Jersey Standard officials have all but decided on a new brand name to be used in all the company's 28,600 U.S. stations. In a final test of consumer reaction, oil and gas are now being sold under the Exxon name at 33 company stations from New Hampshire...
...George Jackson, Papa Davis was a model for manhood. Not a mannequin or a cardboard mock-up, but a living and responsive, vulnerable black man of dignity, Papa Davis taught him the distinction between weakness and tenderness, and impressed upon him that for the poor black in America there is not necessarily a valid connection between punishment and crime, nor need there be a separation between himself and his reason. Most importantly, Papa gave him a galvanic sensitivity to the most fertile possibilities of human life, an awareness that efforts were being made to deny most people access to these...
...must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like...
...continuing public affairs series include The Advocates, a mock-trial show grappling with nettlesome subjects like last week's "Should the Government drop charges against Dr. Daniel Ellsberg?" Top-level advocates are always on the dock (the premiere about Ellsberg featured ex-Senator Ernest Gruening and Professor Noam Chomsky), but in the past the program has as often sensationalized or trivialized public debate as it has illuminated...
There are moments in Ron Field's revival of the show, now in a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert, when the fears and melancholy surface--in distinct contrast to the prevailing air of foolishness and mock sophistication. Certainly most disturbing is the weirdly undefined dream sequence in the second act when Gabey imagines Miss Turnstyles as an unobtainable socialite, surrounded by Ronald Searle-like caricatures of the rich. But for the most part this revival's spirits are too blithe. It strives for a simple-minded innocence when real recognition of the forties' blend of hell-bent pleasure...