Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily press laugh the incident off," Winn writes, "with nervous jokes about eating crow, and jittery gestures in the direction of a pseudo good-natured sportsmanship." But the press is Big Business. How can the public interest find protection? It could be hoped that some of the publishers themselves "would begin to get concerned about the situation they find themselves in and voluntarily do something about it. . . . there is little evidence that that will be the case." Nor would Winn favor the imposition of government controls. "Were that proposed, we would have to take our stand with the publishers...
...concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing to sit in a pseudo-parliament of this nature," he cried. "It is paradoxical that the mother of parliaments should propose the formation of such an authoritarian assembly...
...would seem to the poor unacquainted reader of the CRIMSON that the various pseudo-politicos concerned with the Fisher-HYRC case have so involved themselves in charges and counter-charges that the salient point of importance in the affair has become obscured. The members of this University who voted for Mr. Fisher and who vote for other campaigners expect themselves to be represented by those who seek their vote. If Mr. Fisher and the members of the YRC planning committee had been less concerned with their politics, whatever politics 19-year-old sophomores can be sure of in their...
...going through the middle ages, but a renaissance will follow." He would soon be ready to lead that renaissance: "The world's greatest painters were Velasquez and Raphael -every day I feel I am getting closer to them." There was no challenger. Picasso? "Picasso's works are pseudo-decorative and they all look like rugs...
...point is: that we were junking idealism. While we do plan to show the practical workings of our economy, we will continue to counteract the milk-socialist propaganda of the local pseudo-intellectuals by showing that the American way, as we see it, will give "the greatest good for the greatest number...