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Word: spuriousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Puffed Mao. Mao's reappearance also had some spurious elements to it. Out of sight for six months, and reportedly ailing from either a stroke or a severe heart attack, the Chinese ruler suddenly turned up in blurred, front-page newspaper photos chatting amiably with visiting Albanian Premier Mehmet Shehu. Despite his hearty grin, Mao seemed unnaturally bloated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Peking Opera | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Fielding displays a spurious heartiness that can be depressing, and occasionally he may overplay the nursemaid bit. But the heart of Fielding's guidebook is his personal advice on where to eat, sleep, drink and be merry. It is current (this year's book contains 125,000 lines of revisions), caustic, and in reliable taste. Maxim's (ranked by Michelin as one of France's twelve*** restaurants) has been off Fielding's list since the death of Maitre d'hótel Albert Blaser in 1959, and he attacks Chez Denis (*) for serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU CAN'T TELL THE COUNTRIES WITHOUT A BOOK | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...vase without a mouth, what's it for? Speaking of conception as well as of language, Stanly Kunitz remarks "Berryman is tempted to inflate what he cannot subjugate." The effort to conquer an old emminence grise from the American past may be thought of as a false one, a spurious gesture of research toward a subject that is just not real...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman-II | 4/13/1966 | See Source »

...science professor at Yale, charged the Times with "at the very least a gross distortion of the meaning of the statistics. Such are the distortions of propagandistic journalism." The liberal Reporter magazine editorialized: "The Times built the release into major significance by giving it inordinate prominence and a largely spurious authority. This is not just an acute case of 'scholaritis'; this is irresponsible journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: All the Handouts Fit to Print | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Nathaniel Benchley novels all have a faintly spurious ring, like canned laughter or the new 25? piece. That is because Benchley's plots generally straddle the line of plausibility. Like most of his eight other novels, The Monument depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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