Word: speciously
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...which were denied me on the first round, but it has been mere window-dressing. Not one of the forty-odd persons I nominated under the new procedure received enough votes to be asked to serve. (The GSD even arbitrarily refused to allow several of my nominations, under the specious reasoning that they did not hold the rank of assistant, associate or full professor; thus I was not allowed to nominate such longterm and distinguished members of the Harvard Faculty as Monroe Engel, Barrington Moore, Gary Marx and Frank Sampson...
...QUESTION of what freshmen want brings up thecond specious argument. It is often maintained by those in favor of the traditional House admissions system that, in looking back on their Harvard careers, seniors do not find that the conduct of House admissions was particularly objectionable. In the same way, faculty and administrators apparently judged that married tutors would not find rent too objectionable...
...racial vacuum. The treaty promises of a "permanent Indian frontier" were honored no longer than a 90-day-or-three-thousand-mile-whichever-comes-first used car warranty. Yet, the history that has been written about the Indian and about America has relegated him to a silent, specious isolation. Most of the books that have dealt with the Indian have been concerned with the "plight" of one tribe, and the vast majority of allegedly American histories have treated non-whites in general as creatures of the fringe. American literature and film have compounded the dislocation by using non-whites, Indians...
...feud progressed, Boggs, too, did some retrenching, admitting that Mitchell might be "technically correct" about the absence of taps. But he continued to insist that the FBI had Congressmen under "surveillance"-perhaps using other electronic devices to monitor their offices. Boggs further blunted his attack by the specious argument that whatever the facts, a number of his colleagues believe their phones are tapped and that "if everyone thinks his phone is tapped, it's as bad as their being tapped. You're sure not going to carry on any business...
Albert Jimson's assertions in the letters column of April 1 represent either the worst form of self-righteous ignorance or a humorless April Fool's joke. The argument that abortion is murder has been proven specious many times before, but another refutation seems to be necessary...