Word: shams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debated Fair Deal is still a set of paper promises, and in foreign affairs the great achievements of the last four years are precisely those of which General Eisenhower is a symbol (except for the defense of Korea, which is surely not a one-party triumph). Moreover, in the sham battles over the past which have so often passed for Great Debating in the last two years, roles have been set and lines of contest fixed in a way which might make it hard for Mr. Stevenson to fulfill his promise of a change in tone. His friends say that...
...sullen population of robots chained to the belt line, ridden by fear, bullied by threats and propaganda, and cozened by the vulgar mass arts and mechanical gadgets . . . a police state, ruled by Finance Capital through venal, illiterate political bosses, the FBI, and the generals, under the form of a sham democracy in which the population, given a meaningless paper franchise and deprived of all rights and liberties, finds itself helpless either to stay its own increasing victimization -see the charred black corpse swinging at every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward...
...Washington air was hot last week with talk of a new war on inflation. But it was plain that there would be little more than sham battles. Reason: the planners had planned their political inflation so well that there was no place for the price of most things...
Twice before, the sham and shame of commercialized college athletics had been lambasted by Manhattan General Sessions Judge Saul Streit. Last week the judge was indignant once again. Before the court were three basketball players of Kentucky University's "fabulous five," young men who had proudly worn the U.S. Olympic emblem in the 1948 games. The three had pleaded guilty to "fixing" a game for gamblers...
Without a doubt, most of the Sarah Lawrence student body is satisfied with its work and feels ambitious about future projects. A few girls think the education a sham, that small conferences are little more than bull sessions, and while this may be true sometimes, a girl can always find, both in class and don work, an educational track geared to her speed...