Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfortunate that those who oppose Harvard's membership in the NSA base their opposition on NSA's concern with "political questions not relevant to student government." The argument is spurious in the first place because political questions may affect students as well as any other group in society. As Marc J. Roberts '64, chairman of the National Executive Committee of the NSA, has explained, "The purpose of the NSA is not to dabble in politics, but to get students to think and act about issues which affect them." Policies such as the NSA's call for the abolition...
...than a day in the life of Dr. Matthew Carter, this new novel is practically a shooting script for a new TV series. All the elements of Casey and Kildare are abundantly present: 1) gruff-seeming doctors beset by demanding patients, 2) flippant nurses, 3) crisp dialogue given a spurious weight by repetition ("Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure?" "Yes, we're sure"), and 4) big, dramatic scenes in the operating room with the surgeon rapping out such commands as "Toothed forceps and a knife with a number eleven blade...
...affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous value...
...These spurious threats could remain unquestioned only because so few Negroes here can even imagine a time when segregation will end. In this sense Chestertown Negroes are unprepared for integration. They are small town Americans who have never received the local benefits which city people usually think of as a compensation for the narrowness of rural life. They cannot fully understand a set of arguments which were originally designed for urban communities, where Negroes had constantly been exposed to the sort of life that true equality can provide...
Fallible Infallibility. Author Küng admits that his church has been guilty of "a spurious, self-righteous 'splendid isolation' " from the intellectual currents of the age. He expresses sympathy for many modern men who are exasperated by "the lack of any openness among the Church's leaders towards new problems and insights, new forms and values." In displaying her claim of infallibility before the world, for example, the Catholic Church has refused to admit, "in all honesty and humility, that errors had occurred even in cases where she was perfectly capable of error and in simple...