Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every Thursday afternoon I give Crimson Key tours of Harvard Yard to incoming or prospective freshmen. This past week was pre-freshmen week, so all those on the tour knew they were "in," and only had to make that pseudo-decision between Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
...mental influence on physical objects. Those who have it can, in theory anyway, move mountains or, if we are to believe The Fury, afflict people who cross them with ailments ranging from nosebleeds to cerebral hemorrhages, and worse. To most of us, psychokinesis exists in that exotic realm where pseudo-scientific speculation meets metaphysics, but for Brian De Palma it is obviously an obsession. It was the subject of 1976's highly successful Carrie, and he has returned to it again in The Fury...
...president's greatest tool in controlling the news is creating "pseudo events," Barnes said. Most presidential trips abroad are partly "pseudo events" because they are often designed to improve the president's image, he added...
Then again, Byrne comes through as a romantic in songs like "Happy Day" and "Pulled Up." He rambles on, saying he sees his name go down in history when he daydreams, and generally employing a stream of consciousness technique for pseudo-profound effects...
...name of scientific abstraction), the old saw against those who wish to "destroy without first building an alternative system" is a great weapon for the entrenched self-righteous. It is much harder, though, to fight positive enthusiasm. One can do little more than snarl, "naive and simplistic pseudo-philosophy" when confronted with, say, a new religious sect...