Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other ways of bypassing the code, which stipulates that a broadcaster "should not accept advertising material which describes or dramatizes distress," e.g., commercials showing muscles throbbing with pain. Also questionable is the indiscriminate use of such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...
...agree with all the aspects of economic policy the Republican Party has pursued. However, I cannot condone the pseudo-scientific criticism of Republican policy given by Mr. Norris in the September 28 issue of the CRIMSON...
...Late the Phalarope, Robert Yale Libott's stage adaptation of the novel by Alan Paton, is a good play with a few interesting faults. In the original, Paton used a haunting, pseudo-biblical style and a rather melodramatic story about a white police lieutenant's seduction of a native girl to explore the poisonous influence of racism on the "European" population of South Africa. Libott clearly tried to stick closely to the structure of the novel, but in doing so missed some of its spirit. Paton's book carried a strong aura of urgency, of events sweeping toward inexorable doom...
EZRA POUND: "Remove the layers and layers of cloacinal ranting, snook-cocking, pseudo-professorial jargon and double-talk from Pound's verse, and what remains? Longfellow's plump, soft, ill-at-ease grandnephew remains...
...libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper's creed. " 'Sensation' means making a lot out of nothing. We give facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader in cold detail what happened up to the stage where, as its reports invariably note, offense took place...