Word: spuriousness
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...could curtail or abridge First Amendment rights only when the Court itself decides that a committee's needs (national defense, internal security) outweigh considerations of rights. But, as Black says, the Wilkinson decision throws away the Court's power to determine whether a committee's needs are pressing or spurious. Taking what the House Un-American Activities Committee says at face value makes a mockery of any "balancing test...
...Princeton star who dropped out of school but claimed a spurious "injury...
Thus the entire debate on Cuba is a sham, as divorced from reality as anything Fidel Castro has ever said. And while the spurious debate flickers on about what the U.S. should do (when it can do nothing) so does another sham--the American embargo on Cuba trade. This is a sham, because the major commodities in the once-flourishing Cuba-U.S. trade had already been closed off prior to the embargo, and because American shippers are already transferring the few essential items that Cuba still needs from this country through Canada, which has publicly stated that it will...
...Time and again we hear spurious assertions that America's defenses are weak, that her economic expansive force can be sustained only by federal spending, that her educational and health efforts are deficient. In this kind of preachment political morticians are exhibiting a breast-beating pessimism in the American system...
...typical demagogue, and that is also how Reporter Richard Rovere sees the subject of his biography. Yet it is a measure of McCarthy's defeat that, only two years after his death, it takes an effort of the imagination to recall the shifty but haunted eyes, the spurious rhetoric, the rasping voice ("Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman! Point of order!") that could not be halted by the gavel of reason. The allusion to Euripides should not keep one from remembering that, while there was tragedy in the McCarthy era. there was comedy, too. Rovere recalls that Brooks Atkinson once blamed...