Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON was free to continue its gradual progress to financial solvency. In fact, mere solvency was replaced by unheard-of prosperity, and the Lampoon took advantage of the pleasant situation to issue the first local parody. Aided by a traitorous Crimed, the funnymen put out a spurious issue announcing, among other things, that the fat CRIMSON would give a $1 rebate to all subscribers who called at the office. The stunt left a good deal of hard feeling...
...much less aware of the implacable reality of change simply because his language is dominated by the verb "to be," which implies a static quality of illusory permanence. "Our language," says Bourland, "remains the language of absolutes. The chief offender remains the verb 'to be.' The spurious identity it so readily connotes perverts our perception of reality...
...beginning of the Fall term, a group of students reeled out of the Brattle after seeing La Chinoise and headed for the Cafe Pamplona, where they held one of the first planning sessions for the spurious Anarchy Designs or, as it is now known, H-R X. It was at this meeting that one of X's founders, a man who has since fled to New York to escape cultural persecution, formulated a basic X goal: to be misunderstood by the Press. Therefore, I would personally like to thank the CRIMSON for printing John G. Short's splendid melange...
...Nazi war criminal, then brought to trial in Tel Aviv, where he is uncovered again as a Jewish concentration-camp prisoner from World War II. Even the amazingly agile acting of Donald Pleasence and the sensitive direction of Harold Pinter cannot give substance, theatrical or philosophical, to a spurious script...
...single campaign speech includes some spurious statistics intended to show that Alabama's blacks were all for Lurleen. The insistence that no one can really be against him is at first rather touching, but it has an ominous quality to it: it is the small extension of Johnsonian consensus, the point where social unity becomes fascism...