Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove it, he made a scientific expedition to Golden Gate Park to study the masses at play. "Flowery amazons, accompanied by fat pseudo-cowboys ride horseback along the beach. . . ." he wrote. "Girls on the beach try to free themselves from the remainder of their clothes. . . . Suddenly [my] attention was attracted by one of my neighbors flinging down the newspaper he had taken from his pocket...
...Koestler believes that every thinking man today is threatened or tempted by these two polar figures. On the extreme Left stands the Commissar-the superbly disciplined Communist who believes that the end justifies the means, and who has exchanged ethics, personal liberty and all irrational sentiments for a ruthless "pseudo-Communism" based on economic laws. On the extreme Right, in an "exotic hermitage," stands (or sits) the Yogi. He believes that "each individual is alone, but attached to [Truth] by an invisible umbilical cord" which must never be snapped by violent movement. The Yogi is convinced that a better world...
Show Business. Newsmen and pseudo-newsmen who couldn't get into the conference sessions, or didn't want to, mobbed the Palace Hotel's Pied Piper bar, interviewing each other, exchanging rumors...
Faith Bacon, ecdysiast extraordinary (she has used fans, fawns, feathers, flowers), sued the University of California for three sexy, pseudo-Grecian statues left it by Founder Henry Douglas Bacon, from whom she claims descent. Her demand: either remove the statues (which she has never seen) from storage in a University basement, or give them to her. The University decided to give. Weight of the overwhelming gift: nine tons...
...oldest Sunday supplement in the South has a new dress: the Atlanta Journal ("Covers Dixie like the dew") has a bright new four-color magazine section, designed to make Journal readers forget the charms of pseudo-science and warmed-over scandal...