Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could share Mr. Holt's views and insights. Today's school system does more to suppress learning than to promote it. I am an honors student, but in these past twelve years I have learned neither history, science, French, nor English. Instead, I have learned how to fake an essay, how to cram, how to impress teachers, and how to comb my hair so that it will not appear to be in violation of the administration's dress code. The result is that upon leaving school one has the feeling that he never wants to "learn" another...
...Fake Diamonds...
...This is going to be an interesting performance," she begins hoarsely, "because I have absolutely no voice. But I'll fake it. Oh, well, maybe I'll hit the notes because you're so nice and because it's so good to be home." From the balcony a male voice calls: "I love you, Judy." "I love you too," she replies. And so opens an evening that is less a performance than a love-in. Fred Finklehoffe, who worked with her in Hollywood, says: "Judy doesn't give a concert?she conducts a seance...
...Communists at first insisted that the Be in jail was a fake touched up with expert plastic surgery to look like the real Be, and kept up the flow of adulation for their martyred hero. Now, stung by the way in which the Americans spread word of Be's nonheroic non-death-he hid in a river while the battle raged-they have switched to a terror campaign to silence those who can prove his identity...
Music is one area in which the Harvard undergraduate's well-advertised intelligence is, in a certain sense, a liability. The typical musician here is bright, attentive and clever enough to sight-read and/or fake his way through almost any part that is put in front of him. These are assets valuable in any musician, but the Harvard undergraduate often commits the grave error of depending on his native intelligence and talent to get him by, rather than using them as a tool for achieving a fuller understanding and more meaningful performance of the music. The typical musician performs...