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...Islanders do their best to pretend the "summer ginks" do not exist, or that they are at least only peripheral to real Vineyard life--the delicate small town give-and-take at which people who live on an island are expert. Of course the Islanders couldn't live without off-Island money, and the island's main business is construction of homes for off-Islanders. But this only deepens the resentment, and the determination to glory in insularity...
Bishop reasons that Mclntire and Roosevelt understood each other so well after eleven years together that they had instinctively entered into a conspiracy of silence. The evidence shows that F.D.R. suspected that he was seriously ill but wanted to pretend that everything was all right in hopes of remaining in office until World War II was won. As for Mclntire, he had no desire to destroy the illusions-and perhaps the political future-of the most powerful man in the world...
...would run. Now I probably will run." TerHorst, who reported the Nixon years for the Detroit News, was not quite ready for the new order himself. "Is it all right to put that out?" he asked. "I don't see why not," said Ford. "Why should we pretend?" They may pretend in Texas and California, but out in Chicago and Cleveland they hardly ever go through the reluctant-debutante routine that Americans have witnessed in the White House for a decade...
Brecht once wrote that the actors in his plays needed to remember that they could not become the characters they portrayed. An audience, Brecht said, had to be forced into viewing a drama with critical detachment. To pretend that the theatrical world is real or to win an audience's allegiance to a character through sentimental appeal is to deprive the audience of the opportunity to learn from a play, rather than merely to be entertained...
This list of restaurants does not pretend to be comprehensive--it almost totally excludes the more expensive restaurants around Harvard, and it misses more than one good Harvard snack spot. We've included a brief guide to some of the Square's watering holes on page...