Word: spuriousness
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...Number Came Up still has one big point--it is quite true. Based on a book written by Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard, the story recounts an incident which actually happened. This fact is never mentioned in the film, although it gives the story more meaning than all the spurious philosophical conversations manage to contribute. They only becloud and reduce the picture to a mildly successful thriller...
...hatpin. This young (thirtyish) French political scientist impales totalitarian myths and neutralist delusions, prods lukewarm intellectuals who rarely rise to the defense of democracy, or if they do, praise it with faint damns. Author Labin has small use for so-called thinkers who don the smoked glasses of a spurious objectivity and report that they can see no difference between Western freedom and Eastern tyranny except "shades of grey." She believes that it is worth restating the great central truth, or "secret," of democracy, i.e., that it is the first, last, best and only hope of 20th century mankind...
Bhave has collected gifts amounting to 4,600,000 acres, but his disciples can point to only 213,000 acres actually redistributed. About half this amount has come from landlords in Bihar state, who have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...
...least they can expect is a 'put up or shut up' letter similar to the one we sent Wellesley," Nathan A. Hallenstein, FCC's Chief Engineer in Boston, said yesterday. The Commission told the Wellesley station Tuesday to "comply at once" with spurious radiation regulations or suspend operations. The station then went...
...Last spring we told them to eliminate their spurious radiations, and they promised to modify their equipment," Hallenstein explained. "However, subsequent radiation measurements showed that they still had not complied with law." Hallenstein added that the FCC had then written to President Pusey requesting the University to take action in the case...