Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miss Westman does pretend her book is about people ("You can see ANYTHING in Cambridge. You can see a Chinese and a Finn moving a chest of drawers across a street, one yelling Chinese and the other Finnish, and you wonder how they ever got across the street."), but she can't hide the fact that her real love is buildings. ("One of the nicest times in Cambridge is about five o'clock in the evening. There's always a sunset over the Sheraton Commander if you look hard enough.") Not surprisingly, the warmest picture of the lot zooms...
...broken by solitary, by being kept caged twenty-three-and-a-half hours a day in an eight foot cell. He refuses, literally, to eat shit-for the white inmates in charge of food mix urine, feces and ground glass into the black inmates' dinner. He refuses to pretend to the parole board that he has become a "good boy." He refuses to hide his feelings about prison and those in authority from the eyes of the censor of his letters. He refuses to lie to his parents, to tell them that he believes in their white god, their subservience...
...smoothly as this one was managed. Buckley was apparently aware of this. Kenney and Buckley unexpectedly ran into each other during the morning; they had both stopped abruptly, looking each other over. Buckley had recognized the reporter and, raising his eyebrows as he bowed, said "Ahhhhhhh, Mike! Shall we pretend we're at Bobby...
SEVERAL months ago Rolling Stone ran a piece about how the Beach Boys have been trying to change their name, and, with it, their image, Ultimately the group decided that they were, after all, the Beach Boys and to pretend otherwise would be fraudulent. Well, the Beach Boys are still the Beach Boys, and in their latest album, Sunflower, they prove that surfing can be as much of a viable alternative for the seventies as it was for the sixties...
Bill McCurdy and Jim Tuppeny, the cross country coaches for Harvard and Penn, are not bosom buddies. To say they are enemies is to exaggerate. Nor are they indifferent to each other, though they seem to pretend that they are. I guess it is most accurate to say that they are feverish rivals...