Word: spuriousness
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...loudest gets the grease." Since The Crimson is certainly aware of the fact that the Affirmative Action concept grew out of the civil rights movement and early legal victories for racial equality, to ignore the import of that concept for minority groups is to adopt an unfortunate and spurious political posture...
Benny's obsession with celebrities and their commonplaces is finally inflated by the author and even charged with a kind of spurious nobility. The question -should Benny sell out?-begins as a joke, a preposterous dilemma. Then Lahr's sympathy for Benny, Lahr's eagerness to lend his characters dignity, beats away the japes, and what began as a joke ends in bloodshed and sadness...
...into the best kind of adult fun and games. In the title role, Spain's Teresa Berganza sings with a bravura coloratura style that (among mezzos) only Marilyn Home might match. Conductor Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version of the score (with spurious arias discarded, and some of Rossini's original instrumentation restored), but has produced a performance totally dedicated to the opera's unceasing wit, sane dramatics and will-o'-the-wisp musical acrobatics...
Many of his urban designs have since been bastardized, and the parks he completed have been eroded by careless crowds, inadequate maintenance and spurious development. Consequently some of Olmsted's New York projects-Morningside Park in Manhattan, Tompkins Park and Prospect Park in Brooklyn-are now parodies of their 19th century selves. Moreover, a changed idea of leisure has bitten into the patterns that Olmsted left. Parking lots, baseball diamonds and 27 playgrounds, not to mention the Metropolitan Museum's expansion, have severely damaged Central Park itself. So grasping Olmsted's work is partly a matter...
Caplan, senior psychiatric consultant for the Peace Corps, co-authored a pamphlet which states McGovern uses "major distortions, misrepresentations, and spurious rationalizations" aimed at Jewish voters to demonstrate his support of Israel...