Word: pseudo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John Lilly, known also for his experimental work on dolphin communication, developed the tank in the 1950s. It is similar to the tanks that helped scramble the brain of the Lilly-like hero of the new sci-fi movie Altered States and turn him briefly, and improbably, into a pseudo ape. Tank centers have opened in most states, and a few therapists are using the tank as a successor to the Freudian couch, or in a search for ASC (altered states of consciousness, in the lingo) or OOB (out-of-the-body experiences). "What I'm experiencing is beyond...
...teams and site (Jets vs. Dolphins at Miami) are of little importance compared with the radical innovation that will be the main attraction: the absence of the usual game commentary. Thus the telecast will offer-and here Sports Columnist Red Smith leads the cheers-"no banalities, no pseudo-expert profundities phrased in coachly patois, no giggles, no inside jokes, no second-guessing, no numbing prattle." Just one announcer will be on hand, says NBC, to offer only the sort of essential information (injuries, rulings) that a stadium announcer traditionally provides. The prospect is engaging, even if it may be shocking...
Meanwhile: the spectre of nuclear devastation, overpopulation, finite energy sources, apartheid--these and a handful of other world conditions made it difficult for the unsaved to accept the Simple Plan. And those whom the Majority might regard as the pseudo-saved--people who called themselves Christian but not Fundamentalist--had accepted the simple plan but were looking for the Next Step. There was something unsettling about knowing that you were saved but that millions of little kids were starving to death around the world...
...pseudo-saved were confident that they would be saved because they had accepted the Simple Plan, but they figured that certain handicaps--hunger, disease, ignorance, subjugation, desolation, segregation--understandably made it difficult for others to hear The Word. They prayed to God for the strength to carry out the Next Step (overcoming the handicaps), but there were difficulties in the Straits of Hormuz and the Federal Reserve was raising the prime lending rate and the automobile plants were closing...
...among themselves," unlike the New York Times and the rest of "The Press." Mr. Cudjoe claims that Gershman and Klitgaard simply perpetrate "another ideological onslaught ... against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon." He further accuses them of "pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions." But where is the Klan-like racism in the Klitgaard report? In pointing out test score discrepancies? If there were no such discrepancies in Black and white scores (and other usual admissions criteria) there would be little need for affirmative action. One may wish...