Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current." He doesn't pretend to cover the campaign thoroughly: he ignores some events and deals with others in detail, looking for an essence rather than a careful report...
...homosexual is often considered diseased, a mental and physical abberration to be feared and shunned by the straight society. Jack, a student at the Harvard Divinity school, and a new member of H.G.S.A. says: "We don't want to be treated like lepers, but we don't want to pretend to be straight, either. What we are fighting for is acceptance, a discontinuation of the ridicule and persecution...
...newest and most sophisticated of these fantasy parlors is Golf-O-Rama, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. For $3.75 on weekdays and $5.25 on weekends, a golfer can pretend that he is playing 18 holes on one of five courses (Oahu, Thunderbird, Pebble Beach, Firestone, the Dunes). The illusion of actual play is achieved by projecting an image of the selected fairway on a 9-ft. by 9-ft. screen inside a large booth. When the player drives his ball against this screen, a computer measures its speed and direction, makes adjustments for hooks or slices, and controls the movement...
...gravely, if at all, when apathetic students failed to provide the Committee with the names of potential students. No one should forget that Harvard creates much of its own applicant pool. In light of the extensive recruiting efforts made on the University's behalf, it is idle to pretend that the Admissions Committee merely selects the 'best' applicants to the College. Admittedly, the College selects a class, not 1200 individual applicants. The backbone of the Committee's efforts to maintain a substantial number of blacks at Harvard should rest, like its efforts in most other areas, on recruiting performed...
...crime is committed in the slums that upwardly mobile blacks have deserted for better neighborhoods. Without the stabilizing influence of working families, ghettos tend to disintegrate. Unhappy as this situation is, it is part of the price paid for progress. Write the authors: "It would be merely demagogic to pretend that the progress of any group of people can be accomplished all at once and without class fragmentation...