Word: speciousness
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...contention on which the internship program rose and fell was that it represented what Black South Africans wanted us to do to help them. The University has also made this claim about its refusal to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa. In both cases, the claim is specious...
Weinberger's decision--and the military associations' support of it--are short-sighted. And the tobacco industry's defense of their myopia is specious...
...Harvard Corporation wishes to continue abetting white rule in South Africa, it should do so without meretricious displays of moral concern and human compassion. Intrinsically worthless projects such as the specious "new initiatives" serve only to soothe the consciences of those who collaborate with tyranny, mislead the uninformed, and prolong the struggle for black liberation...
...Minetta Lane Theater, where Balm moved last week after a successful run at the Circle Rep, looks to be enjoying the play a bit too much for its own good. They are sharing not a drink of human dregs but a celebration of show biz in all its volcanic, specious theatricality. Such are the seductions of energy...
Running Mate Ferraro, meanwhile, harped on the war-and-peace issue before large and enthusiastic crowds. As a mother, she said, she feared that a second Reagan Administration might send her son John, 20, off to war. She dismissed as specious a Philadelphia Inquirer story that a man later convicted of labor racketeering gave $700 to her congressional campaigns in 1980 and 1982. Nor did she seem burdened by the financial questions that still plague her husband, who was dismissed last week by a New York City court as the conservator of a woman's estate that he allegedly...