Word: pretend
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...stay up all night doing the reading for a section in which you will say approximately two things over the course of two hours. You pretend to listen as your classmates preface their statements with “I think it’s interesting that…,” knowing all the while that the passage they are highlighting is not interesting so much as indicative of the fact that they have done the reading. You spend so much of the section examining the meaning of the word “ideology?...
...child who has been interviewed has plainly stated the positive impact a black candidate had on mobilizing the black community to vote and become involved. I am a middle-aged white woman who voted for Obama because I believe him to be the best candidate. I do not pretend to empathize with the pain of racism, but to tell whites that Obama's race didn't have that much to do with why blacks voted the way they did is the really "disingenuous" act. Am I not allowed to also hope for an end to racism and its effects...
...child who has been interviewed has plainly stated the positive impact a black candidate had on mobilizing the black community to vote and become involved. I am a middle-aged white woman who voted for Obama because I believe him to be the best candidate. I do not pretend to empathize with the pain of racism, but to tell whites that Obama's race didn't have that much to do with why blacks voted the way they did is what is really "disingenuous." Am I not allowed to also hope for an end to racism and its effects...
...Girl,” and “Born to Run” all in a row? Where can you whip out that Ginger Spice costume you were too pre-pubescent to pull off during the actual Spice Girl heyday? Where can you watch resident tutors awkwardly pretend that you didn’t spend the last two hours pre-gaming as you trip over your Converse sneakers onto the dance floor? That’s right: the house party. Some people think that once you leave your dorm in Harvard Yard, you’re too old or sophisticated...
...always up for grabs, no matter the records, no matter what’s on the line. I get it, believe me, I get it. I wait all year for that third weekend in November to come along. But why don’t we make that day we pretend to be real football schools a day on which we take part in the activities that a real football school would take part in? Big time football schools like Michigan and Michigan State’s newspapers do it, so why not Harvard and Yale? Let’s bring...