Word: shams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live like Natasha, "in the radiance of cultural truth," and he avariciously gulped down the most fashionable aesthet-ics-dadalsm. expressionism and futurism. But the stock market disaster that put nearly forty million men out of work made hoh-nobbing with other literary radicals on manicured Connecticut lawns grotesque sham. West's attention turned to the victims of the crisis and the calibrate fantasy worlds which mitigated their tragedies. The subject of his first novel. The Dream Life of Balso Snell, was West's own dreams. But the progress of his writing traces his broadened increst in peculiarly American myths...
...Ever since the drawing after Thanksgiving, confusing and conflicting reports have come from all sectors: the Pentagon and the draft boards have been at continual odds in their projection of who will be the "winners." Many articles have been written decrying the lottery, holding it up as a sham...
...American war effort and the University's active involvement in it. Harvard's treatment of its own student dissidents is exceptional proof of the University's willingness to impose repression on those who have fought for an end to ROTC and the CFIA. And Harvard's perpetuation of such sham disciplinary tribunals as the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is a clear indication of how the administration intends to deal with further meaningful anti-war protest...
Through his unilateral executive move, the President has placed the country in a state of emergency. He has ignored the constitutional prerogative of Congress and has revealed the sham of his policy of Vietnamization, a policy which through a tortuous process of inner logic, demands that we escalate the war in order to enable American troops to withdraw. He has demonstrated that American foreign policy still dictates the necessity to sacrifice American lives to ravish independent countries and to squander our resources and energies...
...Congress had already passed a bill allocating $800 million for sewage control plants. The President, though opposed to the measure, signed the bill while indicating that he would not spend the money. Even in financial terms. Nixon's glittering scheme to fight pollution is nothing but a sham...