Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...byline of the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, which has decorated Pulitzer Prizewinning stories from Korea and weighty dispatches from world capitals, popped up last August in Reader's Digest and other magazines. Under the headline ONE BILLION UNFILLED CAVITIES MUST BE WRONG! ran a pseudo-news story by "Noted Journalist" Higgins, plugging Crest toothpaste. Washington-based Maggie Higgins, 37 (married to Major General William E. Hall), took her $500 fee and thought nothing more of it until she got a letter from the Standing Committee of Congressional Press Gallery Correspondents, questioning whether she had violated...
Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey denounced the Administration's "pseudo optimism," proposed a special agency for coordinating U.S. scientific and technical programs (Michigan's G.O.P. Senator Charles Potter went Humphrey one better, urged a Cabinet-level Scientific Progress Agency). Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington demanded a special session of Congress, criticized the President for being "paternalistically vague...
Burbling along in his low-decibel way, Professor Parkinson slyly camouflages the fact that there is as much truth as spoof in his pseudo-scientifically stated findings. Finally, he is as difficult to laugh off as he is easy to laugh with. Author Parkinson promises to make further researches into executive manners. One project: he would like to trace the significance of "the illegibility of signatures, the attempt being made to fix the point in a successful executive career at which the handwriting becomes meaningless even to the executive himself...
...relationship between three people: a successful Hollywood producer, his wife, and his teen-age son. The plot focuses on the boy, who gets into trouble with the police by--justifiably--hitting a movie theatre manager. But this is not, and does not pretend to be, another of those romanticised pseudo-Freudian essays on the causes of juvenile delinquency. It is a story of people who are sane and whole, but who have the same problems of knowing and communicating with each other that the members of all families have...
...situation is basically unstable, Brzezinski stated, for as the external threat fades, Gomulka will lose his internal support. This, he believes, would lead either to the substitution of a pseudo-Stalinist regime, causing an uprising by the Polish people, or the fall of Gomulka's government and its replacement by a more democratic government, which in turn would lead to Russian intervention...