Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Economic and social life is inconceivable without liberty. ... It cannot be a liberty which merely denies state regulation. Neither can it be the pseudo-liberty of our present day wherein man is asked to submit his individuality to the will and fancy of gigantic organizations. Genuine and healthy liberty can be only that of men who, feeling themselves solidly bound together in a team to ensure a good social economy, acquire the right to insist on its guarantee and protection without violation of individual liberty...
...somewhat similar subject, Shoeshine (TIME, Sept. 8), if Author Sze had been content to present the stark facts of her matter. As it is, she pads out her story by bringing refugee adults into the camp-boring adults who try to explain, in the hackneyed, childish language of pseudo-philosophy, the desperate situation which the children have already expressed with such matureness...
Kenton is a 6 ft. 4½ in. Californian who at 36 has the same ambition Paul Whiteman had in the '20s: to marry classical music and jazz. In Whiteman's case, what emerged was pseudo-symphonic-a blend of Tin Pan Alley and Tchaikovsky. In Kenton's, it is a driving, nervous (and technically skillful) wedding of swing and Schonberg. Kenton started his outfit in 1941, got ahead fast by getting up early to sign autographs, and looking up disc jockeys whenever he hit a new town. For the past two years, his musicians have been...
...great deal of beauty, even elements of greatness; as material for a moving picture-a story to be expressively told in terms of visible action-it is close to perfect. Unfortunately this fine poetic idea is handled much too "poetically." The characters talk too much and their dialogue, pseudo-biblical in style, constantly undermines their believableness as people...
Pointing out that the book was written primarily for medical men, although it has attained best-seller status, Zimmerman declared that "its pseudo-sociology backed by unrelated statistics will hasten and implement the coming crisis in family behavior. Whether we should welcome this quick arrival or wish for delay is something only time can answer...