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...stage, to simulate conventional sounds on a host of percussion instruments, but there are also special stagehands, called Kurogo, who render all manner of assistance to the actors in full view of the audience. These Kurogo are dressed and veiled in black, to indicate that we are to pretend they are invisible...
...almost the same breath, Ford presumed to grant on behalf of all Americans in the U.S. "recognition of Spain's significance as a friend and partner." Ford's alliance with Franco's fascist government only speaks for the blindness of his foreign policy to the democratic ideals they pretend to uphold...
...people are burdened with 2,000. When Sadat decreed an end to censorship of newspapers soon after he became President, he was not lauded as a liberalizer-far from it. A delegation of censors trooped before the publisher of Cairo's leading newspaper, al Ahram, and complained: "You pretend to defend the common people, but here you are trying to deprive us of our jobs." Inflation is currently running at a 20% annual rate, which forced Sadat to give a 30% cost of living bonus to low-salaried state employees...
...Wilbur K. Jordan was not and still has not been given the credit for interest in careers for women that he deserves. "He used to tell use how good we were, how we owed it to ourselves and society to do something. We chose to ignore him and then pretend nobody ever said...
There are many ways of dealing with the end of the war, but Ford's attempt to pretend the war never happened--enthusiastically seconded by politicians of both parties and commentators of many political stripes--is among the most irresponsible. It is politically irresponsible because it refuses to learn from the past--or engages in a sort of education by fiat, in which unspecified lessons are declared learned and the experience that should have taught them is forgotten. If American involvement in Vietnam was an "accident," or an "error," how can similar accidents and errors be avoided in the future...