Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take the place of religion. It tries to prevent mental illness and to "minister to a mind diseased." It is essentially optimistic and believes that man can learn to live at peace with himself and his fellow...
...spoke quietly and earnestly, giving the Council the most logical, balanced and damning indictment yet made of Russia's actions in Berlin. Said he: "The acts of the Soviet Government . . . create a threat to the peace. All the world knows that this is true. The Soviet Union may pretend it cannot understand . . . That an effort should be made to deprive two and one-half million men, women & children of medicines and food and fuel and clothing . . . may seem to some a small matter. But . . . we cannot be callous to the suffering of millions . . . We are well aware of course...
Vigeland planned his park so that everything leads up to a monolith-a vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
...there is not even an attempt to pretend that the President is directing affairs, is making the decisions, is forming or conducting policy...
...English carry into almost every department of modern life their great unwillingness to admit facts, their power of pretending that things are not so ... [They] live in cities but they are not citified . . . They are urbane without being urban . . . They can dwell in the midst of 20 miles of paving stones and pretend, with the aid of a back green or even of a flowerpot, that they are in a hamlet on the Downs." Yet this self-deception is not all lost. "Modern England," the Times points out, is "a series of city streets . . . Nine out of ten Englishmen anywhere...