Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years women argued for opportunity. Corporate Harvard, like other elite institutions, was run by white men; how could it pretend to care about diversity and respect different voices if it was run by only one group...
...such loneliness preferable to the enforced communities of our forebears? Larkin does not pretend to know, or say. Instead, his poems address the selves that most people prefer to keep hidden during works and days: the nagging voice that wonders whether one choice was worth an infinity of losses. Impossible to answer; impossible, while reading Larkin or after, to forget...
...advertise on our pages, any less oppressed? If we view our advertising policy as an extension of our editorial policy, we'd have to pull the lion's share of our ads. It would be utterly hypocritical to take action on some issues, and ignore others. We can't pretend to institutional morality by pulling...
...against women--and not images--that prevents women from taking control of their own bodies. It is real, material oppression of women within the law, within our economy, within our social customs that is the issue. Images represent the form, and not the substance, of such oppression, and to pretend that the problem can be solved by violating others' rights of free expression and privacy is an irresponsible and dangerous argument...
...would pretend that the School's curriculum yet conveys nearly all that public servants need to know, nor even all that they might possibly be taught about the arts and skills of policy making and administration...