Word: charlatan
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Finally, at the end of the assassins' long night of work, the old charlatan got worn out and sank, reluctantly, for the last time...
...talk shows in our area flogging a book titled "Abduction. " He is accompanied by three or four "alien abduction" fantasizers. He claims to be a distinguished "Harvard University Psychchiatrist." Is this true? If so can you explain how your University can rationalize the maintenance of this ignorant charlatan on the teaching staff? Ray Blessin
There was always the whiff of the charlatan about John Cage. The puckish composer, audacious theoretician, stylish writer, subtle graphic artist, macrobiotic guru and fearless mushroom hunter was the impish personification of the 20th century avant-garde. Arch, soft-spoken and witty, Cage was passionately adored by his acolytes right up to his death at age 79 in 1992, and continues to be regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Beethoven, his influence ranging as far afield as Germany and Japan (where he is a demigod). And yet: Was there ever a composer of whom it can be said...
...reflected its vastness. Juggling unicyclists, "flowers wrapped in poetry," collections for the AIDS Brigade, an aging charlatan's attempt at magic--all these are part of our experiences in this space, and our emotions toward it. For most, the space was not alienating, but inviting. And unlike the sublime cultural pleasures of a country club or the symphony, you never needed a ticket to experience the Square...
...author has resurrected a historical figure, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of cornflakes and founder of a spa for health faddists that he ran at Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907 and 1908. As Boyle caricatures him, Kellogg was half charlatan and half believing zealot, an early whooper-up of overnourished America's chronic food fear. Rigid vegetarianism, fasting, sexual abstinence and abdominal massage were among his nostrums. But his favorite was "colonic irrigation" -- enemas administered as often as five times...