Word: sham
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...blandly submitted a plan to integrate only three schools-and pledged that no child in the district need attend them. Last week Judge Connally cracked down, ordered integration of all kindergartens next fall, and of a grade a year thereafter. He called the board's plan "a palpable sham and subterfuge...
...them, emerge fresh and unique. There is a happy grandfather, a sort of Nordic Big Daddy without any problems except his wife's insistence upon long underwear; a mad and pudgy sculptor whose libido provides the stuff for the funniest parts of the film; the wife herself, whose sham strength acts as a foil for her husband's sham weakness...
...show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some other spot, time and moderator. Whimpered Steve Allen: "I feel like Edison might have felt if they turned down the electric light while they were sitting in the darkness...