Word: spuriousness
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Died. Theodosius Dobzhansky, 75, Russian-born geneticist whose work at U.S. universities and research institutes earned world acclaim; of a heart attack; in Davis, Calif. Dobzhansky, who came to the U.S. as a student and chose to remain when the spurious environmental doctrines of Stalin's pet geneticist, T.D. Lysenko, became Communist dogma, was best known for works such as Genetic Diversity and Human Equality and Heredity and the Nature...
While Christ may in fact never have signed his name-maybe he used a cross -a daring 19th century French forger sold spurious signatures of Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and Lazarus (after his resurrection). Some of the great forgeries have acquired genuine value, notably a play purported to be by Shakespeare that was "discovered" by 18year-old William Henry Ireland in 1795 and was actually produced in London by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (the first-night audience howled it down...
Russian Roulette is the sort of slender, dispensable but diverting story that needs many spurious complications to give it heft. The only real surprises it has to offer, though, are directorial grace notes. They indicate that Lombardo is a film maker capable of better things who ought to have the chance to do them...
EQUALLY SUGGESTIVE is the spurious reference to the Handbook of Undergraduate Regulations. Undergraduates receive such a booklet, it is true, four times, in their September registration envelopes, but few still have it in their possession by November, and virtually none is familiar with its contents. Nor is there anyone, apparently, who actually "expects" them to be--the passive voice, here as throughout Rules Relating conceals a pseudonymous or perhaps shadowy, Kafkaesque figures than those lurking among the pages of this small handbook, here surfacing as "the Senior Tutor," there as "the Administrative Board," but always making their presence felt...
...town, I realized, without the money or inclination to attend a Harvard reunion. By most estimates, attendance here was unusually poor, at best 75 out of a class of 1200. These were not the people who had been in University Hall. Any conclusions would be spurious...