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...such ricky-ticky tunes of the '20s as Baby Face and Japanese Sandman. But when nostalgia dims, so does the picture's brightness. The new songs by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn are tepid at best, and Joe Layton's dance interludes are as spurious as bathtub gin, introduced solely to juice up a weak scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thoroughly Maudlin | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...from the "impure" in radical politics has always been a favorite tactic for dividing the left, and if the history of the last 30 years teaches us anything, it is that those seriously committed to work for change in this country can ill afford to engage in this spurious debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI-COMMUNISM ON THE LEFT | 3/29/1967 | See Source »

...whose numbers were estimated between 30 and 50, had gathered to support one of their number, Paul Wagler '70, for co-chairman, but some of them punctuated the meeting with laughter, hissing and spurious nominations. SDS officers said a total of approximately 200 persons attended the meeting...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: YR's Disrupt SDS Elections, Attempt to Seize Co-Chairmanship | 2/27/1967 | See Source »

...wrenching, erosive of both traditions and old values. Its inheritors have grown up with rapid change, are better prepared to accommodate it than any in history, indeed embrace change as a virtue in itself. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could infinitely enrich the "empty society." If he succeeds (and he is prepared to) the Man of the Year will be a man indeed - and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Inheritor | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...these reasons we consider any attempts to apologize on our behalf to be spurious. We do not apologize. BOB WOOD '66-67 JOE PERSKY 1G ROGER ROSENBLATT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara: Pros and Cons | 11/16/1966 | See Source »

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