Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ministration pretend to the role of arbiter of ideas, values, and intellectual styles within a great university like Harvard...
...Epps' report is, it nonetheless smacks of extraordinary naivete in its attempt to define the limits of stereotyping as a creative mode. There are no doubt aesthetic and moral boundaries beyond which stereotyping should not trespass, but it is a violation of viable intellectual values for a bureaucrat to pretend to know precisely where those boundaries...
...certainly it is simply silly to suggest that survey data on the impact of stereotypes found in "All in the Family" should guide us in this matter. The social scientists who perpetrate this kind of scientific nonsense are hardly more than ideologues who, alas, pretend that all usage of stereotypes in creative works is invalid on its face, while of course celebrating those usages favorable to their own ideological predilections. Thus they would be the first to applaud or rationalize the stereotypes in the TV version of "Roots...
...always been a threat as well as a promise. It entices the winter-weary by flaunting balmy temperatures, azure skies and buds bursting into blazing color. Children break out their bicycles, college students recline and pretend to study on the mall, and Americans of all ages tilt pale faces to catch the first warming rays...
...vast unknowns and moral implications. Do not intervene in evolution, they warn in effect, because "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Caltech's biology chairman, Robert Sinsheimer, concludes: "Biologists have become, without wanting it, the custodians of great and terrible power. It is idle to pretend otherwise...