Word: dishonest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another level, the U. S. government is having its share of troubles in Southeast Asia. It's not that its conduct of the war has been remarkably dishonest and brutal; such petty thoughts have hardly been known to wear on the consciences of our national leaders. The problem is a more technical one. Despite America's monopoly of sheer physical force, the war is quickly becoming a stalemate, and the NLF, Pathet Lao, and North Vietnamese-badly tattered as they have been by the American military machine-aren't about to give...
...Administration choose this occasion to resume the bombing of the North? American planes have frequently been shot down or driven off during spy or bombardment missions over the North. The timing of the raid is dishonest and malicious. While explaining to the American people his plan for "achieving a just peace," Nixon has ferociously stepped up his B-52 raids on insurgent areas of South Vietnam, turning hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese into refugees, herding the rural population into American-controlled urban slums and camps, and strengthening the hand of his puppet military dictatorship in Saigon. American planes have regularly...
Brooks' different routines all fall into a coherent pattern. Each of the characters he assumes is a charlatan, a famous "celebrity" whose every move is dishonest and phony. Yet there is honesty in the dishonesty. The roles are forced on the Brooksian characters by their society; inevitably the "celebrities" haplessly reveal the hollow core beneath their moral and cultural pretensions. Their dogged ineptitude at falsifying themselves arouses our compassion rather than our distaste...
...added that anyone who trespassed to appear in an obstructive demonstration should be approached "through the intermediary of a court." But even at that, the University's case with respect to Ryan's alleged appearance at the May 8 picket line was at best incompetent and at worst dishonest. Harnett, the University's sole witness, could not even say that Ryan was in fact demonstrating. And given Harnett's ambivalence about what Ryan was doing at Harvard, one is tempted to conclude that the University had equally ambivalent motives in pressing the charge...
...acted remotely like a gentleman, only like a sour, spoiled, self-indulgent brat. Besides, Mrs. Hasseltine is in the weakest position to raise any moral questions since it is she who has maligned an innocent man's character. Even as plot jockeying, this kind of dishonest playwriting does not pay, for the audience feels in the end that the emotion, interest and belief that it has invested in the play have all been exploited and betrayed...