Word: play-act
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...perfectly competent to make determinations of fact in questions of academic dishonesty or the like, university committees are not adequately equipped to conduct fact-finding for offenses that could constitute serious crimes. The subcommittees of Harvard's Administrative Board that make findings of fact should not be able to play-act as courts of law. These subcommittees have the power to forever tarnish students with a judgment of a serious offense, but they do not currently give students the opportunity to retain independent representation or to cross-examine witnesses, rights that all free societies view as essential to fair procedure...
Televise a hearing today, and it ceases to be one. It becomes a chance to pillory your opponents, play-act morality and audition for your 15 minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed...
That may be going a little far--playing doctor is not the same as playing with a corpse. But Bell's thinking suggests that what young killers lack is not so much a sense of right and wrong as something much more fundamental--a sense of self-control. "Kids endlessly have--and often play-act--fantasies of being great warriors," says Ted Becker of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. "But most kids don't have this inability to control themselves in the real world." The 20 or so U.S. kids under 10 who are arrested for committing homicide each year...
...audience members, packed in the small363-seat theater, roared their appreciation asChar and Siemens, in a spoof of Weaver's film"Gorillas in the Mist," had Weaver play-act achest-pounding, banana-eating gorilla...
Watson has the imagination of a dreamer. "Sure, you play-act on the golf course growing up," he says, "play out your fantasies." In that delightful aside after his U.S. Open victory at Pebble Beach last summer, Watson told how, while a student at nearby Stanford, he had often practiced just the closing holes there, thinking: "All right, you need to play these last two holes one-under to beat Nicklaus in the Open." Watson's dramatic chip-in at 17 last June, which the world thought was miraculously struck, he considered only amazingly timed. "To do it then...