Word: hokum
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...similar piece of Harvey hokum that led Keith Olbermann to apostrophize, "Probably time for you to give us your final 'Good day!' " But Harvey was no quitter. He reduced his workload to a few broadcasts a week (his son Paul Jr., a longtime writer for the show, was a frequent guest host), but he would not give up the gig after a bout of pneumonia, or his 90th birthday, or even Lynne's death, in 2007, after 67 years of marriage. "Retiring," he said, "is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice." He was still...
...Natalie Wood is an Italian Catholic shopgirl who becomes pregnant in the one-night-stand immaculate conceptions familiar in movies of the '60s (and today; see Knocked Up). But since she had the good fortune to be impregnated by McQueen, true love is assured. The plot is Hollywood hokum with a patina of New Yawk grit, but Mulligan was always an ace at revealing the subtle starlight behind the Kleig lights...
...Tonight is a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism," Mitt Romney said after winning the primary in Michigan, the state where he was born and where his father governed. This was, as is Romney's wont, distillate of hokum. The former Massachusetts governor remains the most pessimistic of candidates, always assuming the worst about the public?and never taking a difficult position or telling a hard truth. In Michigan, he suddenly opposed higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, included in the recent energy bill signed by the President. He also chided John McCain for telling the hard truth that...
...occasional Bush critic, Snow says he was a liberal until he read Marx in college "and realized it was all indecipherable hokum." Colon cancer kept him off the air for eight weeks last year. During that time, says Snow, an attendee of Catholic and Episcopal churches, prayers by strangers increased his faith. He took the White House job after a scan of his vital organs came back "pristine...
Arguing that certain books are more important to read in college than others is distinctly unfashionable. But you do not need to be a raging reactionary to see that academic relativism is complete hokum. All theories are not equally valid; all works are not equally important. Consequently, there is some kind of intellectual hierarchy—and Harvard has a duty to guide its students to the things that are most crucial for them to study. For example, I deeply regret having fulfilled my moral reasoning requirement by reading the “political philosophy” espoused...