Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more serous objection to OBU's demands is the contention that agreeing to the OBU demand would be dishonest since the University does not control the hiring of workers, black or white on construction projects and since there simply aren't enough minority group workers in the area with the requisite skills. The answer to the University's fears about finding enough workers is simple enough: it can call OBU's bluff and wait. If the required number of construction hands don't appear, it won't be the University's fault. On the other hand, if the workers...
Wilder just doesn't believe in anything or anybody. His movies are full of dishonest people, thieves and charlatans, cheats and frauds, phonies and liars of all types. In film after film, nobody ever actually is what he seems...
...since the "bring the boys home" hysteria at the end of World War II, which resulted at least in part in the Soviet Union's success in shunting millions of people from Nazi occupation to Communist occupation, has there been such a deliberate and dishonest play on the emotions of the American people...
...could a few hundred thousand kids convince millions of adults to support actions that would result in victory for an army which has killed thousands of American boys? It can't be done. All the anti-war talk of the last few years seems either naive or dishonest now. We want to stop the war not because it is too expensive, but because it is a bloody holding action to stall a victory by the legitimate though repressive government of the people. Tell that to a woman whose son was mangled by punji sticks or a terrorist attack...
...more, Goldman shows how many of the large number of homosexual American playwrights write dishonest pieces of camp to manipulate heterosexual audiences. He explains the way producers pander to New York's large Jewish theatre-going audience. He writes about the egos (Mike Nichols) and the back-stabbers (Sandy Dennis), the ticket-scalping and the waste, the disasters ( Mate Hair ) and the hits (Plaza Suite...