Word: feigned
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This is not to feign ignorance of how the world really works. An Ivy education generally does carry with it useful social networks, external prestige and the self-esteem that comes with winning the college-admissions version of the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. But these advantages tend to be small and transitory, especially when compared with the weight that anxious parents and students attribute to them. "For certain kinds of jobs, a Harvard degree might help you get a foot in the door," says economist Robert Klitgaard, the author of Choosing Elites. "But if you look at outcomes -- earnings...
...Friendly greeting. As the passengers come on the plane, make sure that you put on your Julie the Cruise Director smile and purr, "Hi. Welcome aboard Continental and thanks for busting the union. How are you doing today?" Feign interest until the passenger feels comfortable enough to describe how he ran over his lifelong pet chihuahua on the way to the airport...
...games ago, however, the Seattle Seahawks started swooning on third downs, and last week Buffalo coach Marv Levy suggested his Bills might also feign strategic injuries in the American Conference championship game. Fearing a sham, commissioner Pete Rozelle issued a fuzzy decree on "the spirit of the rules" and momentarily turned Wyche's ingenuity into an offsetting penalty. Cincinnati beat Buffalo anyway, 21-10, but the theme of Super Week was established. Some 2,200 journalists, double the U.S. press corps at the Moscow summit, will be concerned with ethics...
Reagan's approach to the political process has stressed appearance more than governance. Never accepting the blame is a cornerpiece of the Reagan political legacy. While the buck always stopped with Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan seems content to feign ignorance and absent-mindedness time and again, letting his hand-picked subordinates resign one after another in disgrace and shame. Politicians in both parties have taken note of this absolute rejection of responsibility and learned...
...least remarkable quality of Diebenkorn's graphic work is the formal constancy that runs below its variations of subject and diction. You detect its exterior sign in a steadiness of mood. There are not many emotional ups and downs in Diebenkorn's work, although he certainly does not feign his calm. He finds the world too enjoyable to be detached from it. Life in Southern California (and a durably happy marriage, now in its 46th year) has had the same kind of stabilizing effect on Diebenkorn that the Cote d'Azur did on his great mentor, the subject...