Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here because we are better game players than others our age. We may even be more competent than others our age. But facile game playing (learning to "fake it") and competence do not imply personal fulfillment any more than rationality presumes goodness. As Herbert Gintis says, "We must define the individual not by what he has -in the form of individual commodities-but by what he is and what he does -by his ability to undertake self-fulfilling activities...
...tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks, hook sharpener, pork rinds, floaters, stringer, sinkers and shelf upon shelf of popeyed flies, silver spoons, plastic worms, rubber frogs and fake snakes. "You forgot your harpoon," said John...
Business comes mainly from what the entrepreneurs call "proletarian" campuses, where students have few hard-to-fake seminars with their professors-the University of Massachusetts, Boston University and Northeastern. One customer is a father who is trying to assure academic success for his two children by contracting to have all their papers written by the pros...
...Francisco's ebullient Mayor Joseph Alioto was arraigned last week in Seattle on charges of bribing a Washington State official and using the mails for that purpose. Nothing daunted, Alioto stoutly maintained his innocence of what he called a "14-carat fake" accusation "filled with absolute falsehoods." Would he, despite the charges, run for re-election next fall? Alioto, noting that he had been "not just a full-time mayor but an overtime mayor as well," avoided a straight answer, but let his guard down enough to tell reporters that he had no plans "to resign over this filthy...
Bernhard loves to tell the story of one of these commercial preachers. "We used to call him 'Marrying Sam' back home," he said. "He was making $40.000 a year off the business before they found out he was a fake. But they declared everybody married by him legally bound, probably so that there wouldn't be a lot of bastards running around...