Word: veneered
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...Boigny's sentiments have hardly endeared him to the hotheads of Africa-the Nkrumahs. the Toures and the Nassers-whose political existence is largely based on cursing yesterday's colonialism and extolling today's "positive neutralism.'' This foggy ideology, says Houphouet, is "merely a veneer behind which lies the Communist world." To Ghana's high-flying President Kwame Nkrumah. Houphouet years ago snanped, "You go your way. I'll go mine with the 'old colonialists.' as you put it. In ten years we shall see who has done the most...
...everyone had forgotten the savagery that lay just beneath the Congo veneer of nationhood. Like an ugly scene glimpsed by the lightning of hot equatorial skies, the Congo government again stood revealed as incapable of governing, its army a disorganized rabble...
...Golding's superb novel, Lord of the Flies, in which 30 boys, aged six to twelve, are stranded on a desert island without any adults. They elect a leader, explore the island, go fishing, and things move along at a Disneying pace for a while-until gradually the veneer of civilization begins to peel away and the boys revert to barbarism. All the boy actors in the cast are nonprofessional; they will be on Vieques Island until mid-August, and Director Brook's No. 1 problem is to prevent off-camera the occurrence of what he is trying...
...moralistic veneer of Jew Baiter Toynbee has become transparent. With authentic bigotry, he projects the guilt he feels upon the victim and thereby attempts to squelch the inner voice of his own conscience...
Your article on Mrs. Kennedy represents a shocking display of bad taste. Beneath the sugared veneer there is a coarseness and vulgarity made up of gossipy half-truths, snatches of conversation printed out of context and snide insinuations which are evil and destructive in nature. The First Lady of the land deserves better treatment than this...