Word: speciously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actions in Viet Nam [May 21] are any indication of predominant current feeling toward intellectuals, your statement in the Essay seems to be contradictory. If "anti-eggheadry is at a new low," why are university students referred to as "boorish malcontents," professors accused of having "tortured and specious reasoning," and why is it suggested that "more of our officials take McBundy's example and slap a few of these intellectuals down...
...Thank God for McGeorge Bundy and the courage that permits him to speak in plain, honest language to his former colleagues [May 7]. Every word he uttered sliced like a knife through the professors' tortured and specious reasoning...
...context. Several Harlem playground songs, infectiously rendered by leading man Sammy Davis and two boys, lead into a dialogue accented by carousel music. Then, in "There's a Party Going On," rhythmically built upon the carousel setting and physically sung in the playground of his youth, Davis dreams his specious adult dreams of the world outside that he would like...
Brass to Brass. Surprised and uneasy, new U.S. Ambassador General Maxwell D. Taylor paid a brass-to-brass call on Khanh, firmly reminded him that he was out of line with American policy. Khanh, in effect, replied that he was enunciating South Vietnamese policy, not U.S. policy-a specious argument, since no South Vietnamese thrust northward could possibly succeed without massive U.S.involvement...
...local group of young Republicans has urged the party to "seek in its future leadership those qualities of vision, intellectual force, humaneness and courage that America saw in John F. Kennedy, not in a specious effort to fall hair to his mantle but because our times demand no lesser greatness...