Word: sham
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...vision is brief, its echo swal lowed by Montana's vast emptiness. But it reveals that the hero's feigned indifference to life is a sham. He inwardly craves all the things to which he has tried to close his heart: love and loyalty, and a purpose that will root him to the land his forebears lost. Near the book's end, he tries to rescue a cow that is in danger of drowning in mud. The task is mock-heroic, emblematic of the best he can expect from existence. But he struggles furiously, engaged...
...opposition to changes in the resolution that created the CRR or in the faculty-student ratio of the committee. Students have refused to serve on the CRR since 1970, and should continue to do so if it does not change. If the Faculty will not acknowledge what a sham the CRR makes of the idea of justice, students must keep refusing to acknowledge its legitimacy...
...answer the GAO charges before a meeting this week of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Nassikas argues that, faced with the possibility of gas shortages, his agency had the right to waive some requirements as an emergency measure. The GAO insists that accepting that argument would "make a sham" of the regulatory process. Moreover, the GAO estimates that of the $3.3 billion in increases that were collected, only one-third went to producers to increase gas supplies, which was the purpose of the move. The rest went to pipeline companies...
...Matisse chasubles from Vence, a cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth. Third, with such few exceptions, it is an aesthetic swamp. If some mischievous curator had been asked to as semble a study collection of rhetorical sham, displaying all the cliches of modern art at their meridian of pious triviality, he could hardly have done better...
...matter. The deadliest, most brilliant satire still works by desecration and flourishes in filth. Someone eventually rears up to illuminate the dark underside, reminding us, like Swift, that sham, corruption and violence lurk beneath the surface of our beliefs and institutions and, of course, that Caelia shits. For America in the late fifties and very early sixties there was Lenny Bruce...