Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current version of the blues is chillier than a used Christmas tree lying in a gutter--Derek of the Dominoes has degenerated beyond shooting the sheriff (in self-defence, of course), to the dog days and pseudo-gospel of There's One In Every Crowd and thence to Shangri-La. Which (surprise, surprise) turns out to be a recording studio just raring to press this most recent rocking/R & B-ing/reggae-ing/reneging-on-his-followers onto vinyl...
...which presently has "almost, no redeeming value," according to Atkins. Back Bay State Representative Barney Frank '61 once described city council elections as a "lottery." With upwards of 20 or 30 candidates running for nine city-wide spots, the electorate is forced to rely on surface perceptions based on pseudo-issues such as "anti-busing" or "law and order." By not changing over to district elections White will increase the prizes and confusion without making the game any more legitimate...
...being the rationalizing creature he is, sociobiology was bound to happen. In a scientifically overdeveloped, spiritually underdeveloped society, why not a pseudo discipline to ease the pain of conscience and individual accountability? It still sounds like a variation on the old predestination theme...
Then there's a piece called "Funky Chic," where Wolfe trains his guns on, for God's sake, the dress styles of radicals and pseudo-radicals. It's Wolfe's idea that he never met any radicals or anyone concerned with social change who dressed in jeans. True movers, says Wolfe, dress upwardly-mobile, in something called "funky chic." He mourns that the funky chic clothing stores of his days at Yale are sadly gone--Brooks Brothers, J. Press. This is an interesting idea in itself: to be oppressed you must be J. Pressed...
...December 14 letter by Robina Fraser of the Spartacus Youth League reflects the the same deviousness and dishonesty that it attributes to the University. Regardless of the political and moral considerations involving South Korea's gift to the East Asian Studies Department, the abundance of empty slogans and pseudo-intellectual phrases in Ms. Fraser's letter only succeeds in further obscuring these issues...