Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign at one hotel. But the most truly horrible part of the book is the intimate fashion in which the reader is made to see how from a monstrous relationship a kind of shadow of a good life emerges. Humbert, the false father, often becomes a truly tender pseudo parent; Lolita, the perverted child, becomes a true innocent. In the end-to Humbert's great agony-she is pregnant and happy with a young, goonlike husband. She has escaped, but there is no escape for Humbert. He seeks out a rich, pansy-type writer who had casually seduced...
Trundling tripe around Europe merely confirms the average European's impression that we are cultural boors. These so-called A.E. artists are a collection of bone-lazy, pseudo-bohemians who foist five-minute brush floppings onto the usual gullible, snobbish suckers...
...Pseudo scientists" are trying to "frighten" humanity by exaggerating the threat of overpopulation, charged the Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, but Catholic ears should remain deaf to such fears. "If we have faith in God, he will not punish those who follow his command to be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth...
Paul Andor recreates his original Broadway role as Mr. Lenoir, the hotel-keeper, and speaks French with a good accent. As his wife, Suzanne Caubaye speaks a pseudo-French English that has too many Yiddish touches...
...merchandisers, the key to bigger sales is a new pseudo science that analyzes the U.S. housewife's whims with equal parts of salesmanship, psychology, hypnotism and common sense. Its name: impulse buying. The idea is not new, but with the rise of self-service supermarkets, super drug and variety stores, there is a greater incentive than ever before to encourage shoppers to throw away their shopping lists and buy more than they ever intended...