Word: pretended
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Jonathan A Epstein '83 calls the peer relationship he has built up with the section of Math At he teaches, "at once the biggest problem and the biggest asset it's hard to pretend that you're the one in charge...
...justice deep inside. Since then, journalists, political cartoonists, legal experts, laymen and legislators have launched a barrage of criticism against the insanity plea in criminal proceedings. Many are frustrated to the point of fearing. "It's become a big game. You can get away with anything if you just pretend you're nuts." Implicit in the cynicism is a clear message: reform the use of the "not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity" plea...
...pretend to know any more about the case of sexual harassment that occurred last fall than I have read in the Crimson. All I know is that for nearly a year, (until very recently) every time any matter of sexual harassment or the University's policy on this matter was in the news, so was the name and case history of a certain professor...
...gives guys a chance to blow off some stream, and have a good time." Schieffellin explains. Adds Lamont, "We don't run around and pretend we're Vince Lombardi and make people run steps in the Stadium. It's meant...
...dedication to realistic fiction looks both daring and inspired. At the beginning of his career, the prevailing wisdom held that Joyce, Proust and Kafka had made the old-fashioned novel redundant, a tired illusion that had been exposed once and for all as a sham. Literature should no longer pretend to portray people doing things: it ought to be an artful arrangement of words on a page. Critic Richard Oilman, typically, called narrative "that element of fiction which coerces and degrades it into being a mere alternative to life." Updike's novels and stories went right on, stubbornly offering...