Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time once again for all you pseudo jocks to shine as bright as your hero as we leave the plastic world of domed stadiums and mod sod and return to the natural turf of yesteryear, where Ozzie and Harriet topped the Neilson Ratings, Danny and Juniors were grabbing gold records for ABC-Paramount, and football was king...
John Wilkes Booth at least had the grace to shout "Sic semper tyrannis!" Until lately, most political assassins have felt obliged to dress up their acts of public murder with some pretext of historic purpose. But the Jackal, an Englishman and pseudo gentleman, yearns for nothing more uplifting than the good life. When he gets an assignment from the OAS (France's antigovernment secret army of the early 1960s) to do in Charles de Gaulle, he looks on it simply as a "once in a lifetime job." If he brings it off, he will be able to retire...
...Pound was only partly right. Poetry did need to escape from its iambic prison, but not break its neck in the attempt. It is high time this pseudo poetry of disjecta membra was put in its place, as you have done in the fine peroration of the article's last two paragraphs...
...essay on human fallibility and insect adaptability, The Hellstrom Chronicle seems just a little too facile. The pseudo-documentary framework of the film becomes rickety in places, as Hellstrom (Lawrence Pressman) intones a narration more inflated than informative ("The world was created not with the sweetness of love but the violence of rape"). It is rather as a visual experience that the film succeeds so supremely well...
Vladimir Nabokov called it "posh-lost," a Russian term he translates as "crude pseudo literature." Thomas Mann called it Death in Venice, perhaps the most celebrated novella of the 20th century...