Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Confusion. The most striking example of what Shen was talking about came from Mali's Borema Bocoum, who invoked "objectivity and realism" to demand that Red China be "restored to its proper place in the U.N.," then protested that any proposal for free elections in East Germany is "spurious" and "designed to breed confusion in people's minds." In a classic example of nonaligned non sequitur, Bocoum proclaimed: "The idea of self-determination is valid only for peoples who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty...
...community; nor could any but his close associates be expected to realize his whole-hearted commitment to the Loeb Drama Center, both before and after its actual construction. But it is certainly reasonable to expect that a student newspaper will exercise a modicum of restraint before allowing allegations as spurious as those regarding Mr. Aaron to be printed in their columns as fact...
Time after time, De Chirico publicly labeled works signed with his name as spurious and got them "sequestered"-a legal action whereby police seize a painting until a court can judge its authenticity...
...could curtail or abridge First Amendment rights only when the Court itself decides that a committee's needs (national defense, internal security) outweigh considerations of rights. But, as Black says, the Wilkinson decision throws away the Court's power to determine whether a committee's needs are pressing or spurious. Taking what the House Un-American Activities Committee says at face value makes a mockery of any "balancing test...
...Princeton star who dropped out of school but claimed a spurious "injury...