Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...thought that angels are dead is a nagging one. It is unsatisfactory, and the root of the dissatisfaction goes back to an early angelologist, the so-called Pseudo-Dionysius, who warned in the 6th century that "in dwelling upon the nobler images it is probable that we might fall into the error of supposing that the Celestial Intelligences are some kind of golden beings, or shining men flashing like lightning...
...LOVE MY WIFE is just about what you'd expect from the author of Getting Straight and the director of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium: a limp, adolescent, pseudo-hip study of the comic agonies of an unhappily married contemporary man. Elliott Gould, of course, is the star, and he shuffles through the cretinous proceedings with the guilty look of someone who has been through it all so many times before that he should know better. I Love My Wife is the kind of assembly-line candy bar movie that induces in an audience rage...
Third, Sarris's auteurism carries with it vast pseudo-intellectual pretense. Mr. Sarris may well be as prophetic about the careers of directors and their philosophic overview as Mr. Byron says he is, but the critical question remains "to what ends?" That question remains unanswered, lying forgotten somewhere between Ophuls's tracking-shots and John Ford's painted backdrops...
...these characteristics attributed only to Lesley girls? The typical "Pseudo-Sophisticate" can be found anywhere. I don't deny that this also includes Lesley College but the gross generalization Harvard boys have brought the matter to is unfair...
...conviction is that the spirit behind both the musical and the CRIMSON review is a violation of the tact and generosity required if those of various traditions are to live together as members of the same community. We reject the pseudo-sophistication which ridicules deeply-held convictions of our brothers and sisters...