Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violating the accepted priniciple that no defendant may be put in jeopardy twice for the same crime, Castro has destroyed even the veneer of legalities which the trials maintained. He has also shown that he places himself above the legal machinery of the revolutionary regime. It seems that those whom Castro proscribes will be punished no matter what the courts may decide...
...leader gets in college is also subject to misinterpretation. Colleges like Harvard are prone to suppose that their job is not to train youngsters, but to intellectualize those already destined for the elite. No one would deny the importance of such efforts should they succeed, but if the superficial veneer of culture which most people acquire in college is the sole return on their investment, then millions of Americans are being short changed. Before accepting this improbable hypothesis we must scrutinize the possibility that the four year apprenticeship to the scholars (often called "liberal education") changes not only the veneer...
...Harvard. A slim, fit-looking man. he dresses in dignified executive grey, parades a lofty moral code: "Business ethics aren't good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee for two solid weeks...
...touch, lapses into gray elaboration, and drags on to repetitive dreariness. Maura Cavanaugh (a Radcliffe History major) embarks on a twenty page slash of Samuel Beckett in a vindictive farce called "Waiting for God." Both satires lack any self-substance beyond the parody. Both blunder on after the comic veneer has worn thin enough to recognize their paucity. And both conveniently ignore or unhappily miss a good deal of their victims' subtleties...
Nothing, as a matter of fact, penetrates his illogic. Quite apparently his quote-droping and title-recommending form a veneer of scholarship for his prejudice. It seems unlikely that Dartmouth taught him more than the forensic arts and the techniques of making propaganda plausible. His education never sent him to the sources he quotes, but left him with interpreters of dubious significance. His anthropology is outdated, his authorities are one-sided, his learning is shallow...