Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...norm at Yale. The attitudes actions, and achievements of the men in the other groups are in some way adjustments to the attitudes, actions, and achievements of the men in the top groups." The study, which most Elis agree is incisively true, divides all students into the wheels, the pseudo-wheels, the ordinary guys (who seek extra-curricular participation as an end in itself), the pushers, the non-entities ("nice guys who don't stand out"), and the outcasts (because of nationality, religion, or sloppy appearance...
...Pseudo-People. None of these systems can be seen with telescopes (nor are they likely ever to be seen), but Hoyle believes that at least 100,000 of them must each contain at least one planet with physical conditions (temperature, chemical content, etc.) favorable to the development of life. The question whether life will develop where life is possible he leaves to the biologists, but he thinks their answer would be yes. He suspects, too, that life on faraway planets may have evolved along familiar lines. There may be "pseudo" men & women with two legs, two hands, large brains...
Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...
...flying saucers" in [another] magazine . . . I was thoroughly convinced at that time of the scientific unsoundness of his writing . . . Every person of intelligence should be indignant at the thought of anyone deliberately promoting national hysteria, based on the hallucinations of people who will swallow any fantasy thinly veiled in pseudo-scientific jargon...
...very mode of expression of the unnamed spokesman for the American Psychological Association who views as "dismal" the acceptance of a teaching position which is open only to those who are able to deny that they are traitors to the U.S. [TIME, Sept. 18] bespeaks the smug sort of pseudo-intellectual among whom radicalism is considered fashionable...