Word: sham
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...death trip. So far the strike has been a failure, but the strike is not over. We in Cambridge can't stop the war or free Bobby Seale or even tear down the wall around Harvard this winter. But unless all our righteous indignation last Spring was a sham, we must tear down the little walls between people that we can take care of now. And someday, all those big walls will come down...
...Kampf is dismissed by Reck as "Machiavelli for chambermaids." Albert Speer's clean-cut expression is "the epitome of this whole, sickening, mechanical, little-boy-at-heart generation." Goring, the son of a waitress, is rendered among his looted art and phony coat of arms as a preposterous sham. In fact, Reck saw the whole Third Reich as ludicrous kitsch compounded of dueling-club romanticism, gymnastics and "a touch of Hegel...
...live like Natasha, "in the radiance of cultural truth," and he avariciously gulped down the most fashionable aesthet-ics-dadalsm. expressionism and futurism. But the stock market disaster that put nearly forty million men out of work made hoh-nobbing with other literary radicals on manicured Connecticut lawns grotesque sham. West's attention turned to the victims of the crisis and the calibrate fantasy worlds which mitigated their tragedies. The subject of his first novel. The Dream Life of Balso Snell, was West's own dreams. But the progress of his writing traces his broadened increst in peculiarly American myths...
...Ever since the drawing after Thanksgiving, confusing and conflicting reports have come from all sectors: the Pentagon and the draft boards have been at continual odds in their projection of who will be the "winners." Many articles have been written decrying the lottery, holding it up as a sham...
...American war effort and the University's active involvement in it. Harvard's treatment of its own student dissidents is exceptional proof of the University's willingness to impose repression on those who have fought for an end to ROTC and the CFIA. And Harvard's perpetuation of such sham disciplinary tribunals as the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is a clear indication of how the administration intends to deal with further meaningful anti-war protest...