Word: mock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling it the "greatest disservice to cities and towns in the history of the Commonwealth," Cambridge City Manager James L. Sullivan told a mock budget hearing last night that the city's government would be unable to provide even police and fire protection within three years if Proposition 2 1/2 passes...
...even trashier novel than Flying or How to Save Your Own Life (1977), but that's not the most annoying thing about it. With Fanny, Jong backdates her heroine, capitalizing every other word in a futile attempt to satisfy on a literary level. Acclaiming her creation as a "mock-eighteenth-century novel," Jong writes the 490-odd-page story from Fanny's perspective in a brand of English that defies historical classification...
Those...who mock liberty by questioning its value to a starving man who first needs bread, forget the simple fact that often the man has been denied bread because he has been denied the liberty to fight for that bread...
...teen-age listeners must have vowed on the spot to become astronomers. One thing is certain: Sagan captivated Carson, who kept inviting him back for further appearances. Indeed he became such a frequent guest that students would greet his return to the Ithaca lecture halls with a mock Tonight show-type introduction: "Heeere's Carl...
Meantime from the podium he projected another character of his own creation, the cosmopolitan, eccentric lecturer: authoritarian but also authoritative, alternately mock-stern and mischievous (he sometimes started over in mid-lecture, to see how long it would take the class to notice), arrogant yet never harsh, in fact downright kindly at times. After explaining that the transformed Gregor Samsa in Kafka's The Metamorphosis was not a cockroach but a beetle, and that beneath his carapace he possessed unsuspected wings, Nabokov told his students: "This is a very nice observation on my part to be treasured all your...