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...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...
...working class revolution on their minds. But these differences of ideology and interest become quite evident and very real in the context of a struggle, such as the Strike of last spring. In such a situation when the men who run the University are trying their hardest to feign an anti-war posture and pretend that they have a harmony of interests with the students, any group which continually points to the war-related activities of the University, and advocates fighting alliances with a class of people already hostile to the men who run Harvard, is quite clearly a threat...
...soon rediscovered how sadly identical each shop was. The excitement of the border incident and the brightness of the merchandise wore off quickly. We got down to the routine business of haggling-the merchant quotes you a price twice as high as he expects to get, you feign shock and make a counter-offer of two-thirds what you're willing to pay, and you whittle each other to the appropriate price. It can be a sport or a chore, depending on the wit and passion of the shopkeeper ("Ah! $5 for hand-made, fine hand-crafted, really real peasant...
...shall I feign fascination
...environmental pollution, for it moves the electoral decision from reason to the irrational and erodes people's belief in the democratic process. A greater tragedy, though, is the extent to which Yorty's racism has so aptly measured the temperament of the voter. How dare we feign shock at the news of a Watts...