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Armstrong discovered that even Hubbard's personal background was a sham. Public records show that when Hubbard had claimed to be traveling through Asia and the South Pacific from 1925 to 1929, learning what he called "the secrets of life" from magicians, lamas, priests and wise men, he was actually a mediocre high school student. Although Hubbard presented himself as a highly educated man, he flunked out of George Washington University's engineering school after two years...
...rest of the film now falls into place. The case becomes an obsession both for Galvin and the audience, especially as it becomes clear that the trial is a sham. Director Lumet cleverly arranges the scenes around the building anticipation to the trial, and the film never lags...
...conflict is sharply limned in Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide...
...Wharton makes the argument that the conference is a "sham," and that it was somehow organized with the intention of the State of Israel. In fact, the idea of presenting a symposium of this sort arose precisely because we have been upset by the anti-Israel nature of many local responses to the war in Lebanon (the demonstrations at Holyoke Center, for example) and felt that such rallies and demonstrations were not the best way to confront this situation. The Israel-Arab conflict encompasses far more than the recent events in Lebanon, and its complexity deserves a format encouraging informational...
...Finally, and most importantly, I object to the fact that the organizers have taken the opportunity to provide a great service--have seized the chance to create an informative and educational program--and have, rather than do a respectable job, produced what I feel is best described as a sham...