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...Londonderry; yet so far the British army has refused to enter the Bogside out of fear that innocent civilians would be killed in the ensuing street battles. Moreover, the 3,000 or 4,000 destitute Catholic families who live in the area either openly support the young men or feign ignorance. Said a neighbor: "We know what these lads are up to, but we don't want to know what they're doing...
...book that reads like a good novel. However, what is clear is that, in Brown's words, "history has a way of intruding upon the present." After reading the descriptions of the Chivington and Sand Creek Massacres and the slaughter at Wounded Knee, it becomes far more difficult to feign surprise at MyLai, and mumble convincingly that that's just not the sort of thing that American boys will do. One's excitement over the Pentagon Papers is somewhat diminished by Brown's account of how and why the government's Indian policy was formulated and executed...
Prison would become a personal purgatory for George Jackson, but such was not the case in his first incarceration at Paso Robles. After partially recovering from the initial shock of capture, he learned how to feign the capitulation which the authorities were attempting to elicit and was released shortly before Christmas...
Fair enough. But might I add that these critics ought not be cheap: they ought not feign surprise at a college dean who expects most women to be, either full-time or part-time, housekeepers and child rearers. They also ought to be consistent: the venom at von Stade might well be tossed too at their own daddies...
...other evidence that Maria's world-full of Hollywood-types that "registered on her only as a foreigner or a faggot or a gangster"-is capable of supporting any deeper sense of life. The very superficiality of its pretended pain mocks any postures of feeling it cares to feign...