Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defy self-righteous students such as Cecil McNab to sit still and expouse "academic freedom" when a KKK member comes to deliver a speech at the Law School in which he calls Blacks "inferior" or in some way brings back the most pernicious racial slander perpetrated by pseudo-Darwinists at the beginning of this century. Mr. McNab's view represents, quite simply, the most blatant of double standards. Is his understanding of free speech that we must listen to such virulence as Rahman's in silence? Would he condemn the Falwell "hecklers" or those who protest at ACSR meetings...
...interested parties in this troubled region recognize that a lasting solution to the perpetual state of warfare requires the active participation of the Palestinians themselves. By the same token, surely Arafat must by now realize that no nation, let alone Israel, can afford to deal with a Soviet-equipped pseudo-military organization unwilling to bend in its insistence on total control over the West Bank and Gaza...
...answers, who is not afraid to reject the slogans of the past to create the solutions for the future. He is the only one who at this early stage has published a book, and A New Democracy A Democratic, Vision for the 1980's and Beyond racks of this pseudo intellectual tack...
...abnormal to say. "I hate baseball. Not only is it stupid and boring, but the players are getting paid too much to play a kid's game. Baseball has lost its virginity. It has been infiltrated and corrupted by money." Then the discussion takes the predictable pseudo-intellectual turn when the baseball haters attempt to defend soccer or lacrosse as better sports. In my opinion, that's just plain silly...
McGovern has done for better in previous roles which gave her more to work with, such as Timothy Hutton's pseudo-girlfriend in Ordinary People. In that movie she successfully captured the mental difficulties that helped delineate the character. As Chloe, though, she doesn't even get a handle on the zaniness and sensuality needed to make the character plausible. Her voice seems unnecessarily monotone at times, and her actions are nowhere near sultry enough to turn Benjamin's life topsy-turvy--even in the scenes where she discusses her fantasies with...