Word: purport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scene brings the monthly centerfolds to life, though not intelligent life, in filmed segments showing their phantasmagoric photo sessions (as Miss December dutifully undrapes for the 9th time, she purrs: "I'm a very touchy-feely person"). The two smirky anchors of Sexcetera . . . The News According to Playboy purport to examine sexual mores. One typically feeble attempt at jocularity: in profiling the teacher of an acting school for X-rated movies, the woman anchor remarks that the instructor "helps the actors stay on top of things...
None of this would be excusable, but some of it might be more understandable, if the Review did not purport to represent intellectual conservatism at an academic institution of high calibre, if it did not claim on its advisory board such distinguished conservatives as George Gilder, Walter Williams, and Mildred Jefferson...
...shame that a more constructive type of guidance also seems to have disappeared town this campus-if it ever was here. While academic and personal counseling-and "Radcliffe," for the matter-are ostensibly available, the guidance mechanism, and its propagators seem deeply out of touch with the community they purport to serve. Consequently, many undergraduates make mistakes early on as a result of not knowing how to make Harvard work, how to get this big institution to provide you with the education and lifestyle that you are paying for. Poor advising does not teach anyone a lesson. It imparts...
...months before the embassy takeover, the documents indicate, U.S. officials in Tehran made a good-faith effort to mend relations. Yet there were attempts at old-fashioned spying. The papers purport to show that the CIA attempted to recruit Abolhassan Banisadr, then an adviser to Khomeini and later President of Iran, to be an informer in the summer of 1979. A CIA agent posing as an American businessman approached Banisadr in Tehran and offered to hire him as a business consultant for $5,000 a month, but the attempt failed...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of Geology, was a chief witness at the trial. His testimony in U.S. District Court in Little Rock tried to show how fossil records disproved a sudden recent appearance of life, as Fundamentalist groups purport...