Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Consider the lamp-post, gentlemen. Is it the brave, fearless last representative of a style of architecture that once was, standing in front of that horrid edifice, beaming its disrespect at it like a staunch puppydog eyeing a newfangled fire-hydrant? No, it is not. It is a ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian...
...verse. MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, wrote "The Trojan Horse" originally for radio production on the B.B.C. Its action takes place outside the walls of ancient Troy. The horse of the Greeks is seen, but few Trojans allow themselves to believe that the wooden animal 'is a ruse. The only person who clearly perceives the imminent danger is a blind poet, who will be played by Edward Finnegan. Finnegan is a director in the George Gersh win Workshop at Boston University...
Beggar Programs. But neither threat nor ruse stopped the invasion. The East Germans poured into West Berlin and out again, carrying their two pounds of lard, bags of dried beans, peas and flour, and four cans of condensed milk. All together, each parcel was worth about $1,15-not much by Western standards, but plainly a treasure to East Germans. Most came with identity cards of all their family, and some few friends besides, and got a parcel for each one. "I paid 28 marks for my train ticket," said one bedraggled housewife from deep in the Soviet zone...
TWENTYNINTH . . ." But the cable was a ruse, coded to prevent a leakage of the great news that the British Ambassador to Nepal was relaying to London. Decoded, the message ran: HILLARY & TENZING...
...TIME. He was a distributor of Swedish newspapers and magazines, most of them banned during the German occupation. One day in 1945, he received word that a TIME Inc. representative would like to talk to him in Stockholm. To get permission to make the trip, Fardal concocted an elaborate ruse. About a year earlier, he had become the Danish representative for a paper mill in Gothenburg, Sweden. So he arranged surreptitiously to have this firm send him a letter offering to ship a large quantity of toilet paper, then badly needed in Denmark. On the strength of this offer...