Word: pseudo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...points out that the American's very urge to create wealth is tied up with his vision of a better life for all (Maritain believes that the U.S. has gone beyond either capitalism or socialism to "economic humanism"). Says he: "Genuine spirituals love America. Her worst enemies are pseudo-spirituals." Tellingly, Maritain notes what too many U.S. literary critics have ignored: that "American literature, in its most objective scrutinies, has been preoccupied with the beyond and the nameless which haunt our blood...
Handlin never quite makes up his mind whether he is writing this book as an historian or as Al Smith. Is a given judgment Smith's or Handlin's? It's often hard to say. When they are given in a pseudo-brogue, one would suppose they are Smith...
...trying to create a pseudo-European coffee house atmosphere," co-owner Paula Kelley explained. "This is an American coffee house. Actually, our place is more than a coffee house; it is a place where one can relax, meet friends, and listen to progressive jazz. We are not in business just to sell coffee...
...latest issue, far from being a reversal of the trend towards well-dressed mediocrity, is as representative of the pseudo-sophisticate ethic as any of its predecessors. Except for one fine piece of reporting on the activities of David R. ("Yours for racial integrity") Wang, the December Ivy is as stupidly snide as its models--the Luce magazines...
Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize...