Word: speciousness
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...GOVERNMENT has finally dropped its six-month long effort to suppress Howard Morland's "The H-Bomb Secret," and the article will appear in The Progressive's next issue. It's about time. The court based its prior restraint injunction on specious "national security" grounds; as the government has admitted, and as Morland had contended all along, the supposedly "secret restricted" information contained in the article had been available to the public from a variety of unclassified sources, including several public libraries, scientific journals and the current edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...because they do go on forever--songs on the first side average close to five minutes. Some, like "Rock Lobster," have a good hook, but a good hook can't sustain a seven-minute song. Some are simply horrible, forced screaming and banal lyrics and a fascination with the specious. Consider this, from "Dance This Mess Around...
However, only very specious reasoning would indicate that the Corporation's action and Mr. Calkin's statement conferred "legitimacy upon Ian Smith's 'internal settlement.'" If anything, it is a tacit recognition of the new Muzorewa government, which strikes me as both responsible and morally sensitive. The resolutions were ill-conceived. But the problem goes further: the phrase 'Ian Smith's internal settlement' is misleading and false, and the settlement itself is definitely not farcical...
...Playwrights Lawrence and Lee to shift a characterization that belongs uniquely and unalterably to Oliver Wendell Holmes. The new appointee, Ruth Loomis (Jane Alexander), is a rabid conservative hatched in Orange County, Calif. Naturally, they get into verbal fencing matches but they duel with rubber foils and specious logic...
Nine Lahoud's article on the Palestinian problem (May 16) is rife with distortion and clouding of crucial distinctions. Lahoud joins the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in denying the right of Jews to national self-determination when she quotes an Arab spokesman's specious distinction between Jews and Zionists--a distinction denied by all three major American Jewish denominations...