Word: speciousness
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...that the conscientious American Catholic is to be systematically made the victim of the universal evils of injustice, intolerance and discrimination. The larger and more important constitutional issue today is the protection of the rights and dignity of the individual citizen, and not the belaboring of the almost nonexistent, specious church-state question...
...Destroys Specious Orthodoxies...
...resolve all the contrasts and in the structure of modern would be an impossible task. object of Aron's book is to explain of them, and to destroy, in a et way, what he feels are orthodox and largely specious effusions on the causes and consequences of de Gaulle's new Republic. For commonplace evaluations of such matters as changes in the French economy, the roots of ministerial instability, or the policy of de Gaulle and his predecessors toward Algeria, Aron has little tolerance, and while his own may not be any more convincing, they are at least excellently supported...
...dismissal rests on the specious pretext of a new Yankee policy on retirement, but baseball fans across the country have not been taken in by it. From volatile Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox president, to a Brooklyn tattooist to a Broadway astrologer, they have voiced their indignation at this injustice...
More and more, this is the season of "TV to Read a Good Book By." Except for the Republican Convention, there is precious little this week beyond 1 ) reruns and 2) specious summer fill...