Word: spuriousness
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...These spurious threats could remain unquestioned only because so few Negroes here can even imagine a time when segregation will end. In this sense Chestertown Negroes are unprepared for integration. They are small town Americans who have never received the local benefits which city people usually think of as a compensation for the narrowness of rural life. They cannot fully understand a set of arguments which were originally designed for urban communities, where Negroes had constantly been exposed to the sort of life that true equality can provide...
Fallible Infallibility. Author Küng admits that his church has been guilty of "a spurious, self-righteous 'splendid isolation' " from the intellectual currents of the age. He expresses sympathy for many modern men who are exasperated by "the lack of any openness among the Church's leaders towards new problems and insights, new forms and values." In displaying her claim of infallibility before the world, for example, the Catholic Church has refused to admit, "in all honesty and humility, that errors had occurred even in cases where she was perfectly capable of error and in simple...
...against a background of slowly emerging criticism of the program--some valid, some clearly spurious--that a discussion of growth or curtailment must be undertaken. I would like to as rapidly as possible with a central criticism, one that strikes at the very concept of advanced placement. Overtly it is expressed when an adviser points to a failing grade in a middle-group course and generalizes about a program that presses innocent children into studies for which they are not prepared; when a tutor reports on a sophomore standing student whose performance on general examinations has fallen short...
...sand was shaved cleanly off. But Dixon's FTC found Bates had used Plexiglas instead of sandpaper and that sand was not in fact shaved off the real thing. The FTC then ordered that Colgate and Bates should never again falsely advertise shaving cream or use "spurious mock-ups or demonstrations for any product...
...leader of a rival street gang called The Sharks. As in Shakespeare's poem, the star-crossed lovers meet and love and find their fate in the ugly shadow of suspicion that divides their kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece a certain spurious redolence of tradition, proves a pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare's lovers seem silly in the gilded palazzi of romantic old Verona; in the rancid tenements of unremitting megalopolis, West Side Story's lovers seem simply unreal and finally uninteresting...