Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother to three kids from the Kings School and Agassiz School in Cambridge, Chapus sees his friends once a week. "I take them to dinner at Winthrop House, or a movie or a Bruins game. What actors little kids are. You give them one sip of beer and they pretend that they are drunk--but it really makes their...
There was only one reason a Dean should write to me. I out the envelope back, unopened. I could always pretend I never got it. Or I could fake amnesia, like Joseph Cotton in that movie. A convincing case of amnesia would wipe out all traces of Janet Pressell. Then, after some artistic plastic surgery and some intensive dieting, she could emerge as Victoria de la Mandolin, tall and willowy a femme fatale on twenty continents...
...bedrock of the Galbraithian economic vision is common sense: when something is wrong, make it right. Do not try to pretend that it is right. It has been about 73 years since Galbraith was born on his father's Ontario farm, but its marks on him can never be erased by time. His garb is now strictly Ivy League Professorial, yet, in repose, his thumbs seem naturally to stray to his lapels, in the classic farming pose. The wrists, dangling from his famed and still awesome longitude, still seem unnaturally powerful for one who has made a living with...
...lascivious behavior at the copy machine, cease your sultry coffee service, and no more sexually explicit typing. Don't you know that virtue is its own reward? On-the-job harassment: Hah! That's what you get for unchaining yourselves from your kitchen stoves and trying to pretend you have something other than chitlins and children to give the world...
EXPLOITATION of different people for different reasons occurs in every corner of society. Sometimes it is naked and does not pretend to excuse itself, as in the codified economic slavery of apartheid; sometimes it takes a less overt form, as in the maltreatment of minority groups in both the United States and the Soviet Union. But all its forms share a degradation of the human spirit that springs from treating individuals as means to economic ends...