Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asinine over-criticism you expose nothing but your lack of real knowledge of Soviet conditions. Anyone who reads your "Russias" and "Religions" and "Transports'' and "Miscellanies" for the past few months knows that such things and conditions don't actually exist. They know that although you pretend to be impartial you are really being governed by a moneyed class of pseudo-Fascists. Harknesses and Hearstlings, I'll mention no specific proof of this lousy editorial policy, it's spread throughout your entire publication-from cover to cover...
...Taps" does not pretend to be a work of art. Its value comes from its success in embodying in a readable narrative, ideas and arguments on one of the most crucial issues of the century. Can any individual reconcile it with his conscience to take part in the mass murder of war? Can he allow a creed of non-violence to be pushed so far by logic that it is destroyed along with its believers by the ruthless powers which still exist in the world? Can any individual rightly jeopardize the safety of his own country by clinging...
...their human hosts: "Unable to know good without bad, they congratulate themselves upon being the only creatures for whom both exist. Unable to live long, they claim a special beauty for their limited lives. Unable to conceive eternity, they worship time. Unable to avoid suffering and disappointment, they pretend that these are nobler teachers than felicity and truth. Unable to achieve anything better than the sorriest confusion in their minds, they chatter about the unfathomable variety of the world...
...likeness of John Harvard having been preserved, the statue by Daniel C. French in the College Yard and the stained glass portrait at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, are both ideal representations. Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882 posed for the sculptor but the statue does not pretend to be a likeness of Hoar...
...football season this year was disastrous. I am not going to stand up for it and try to pretend it was not. But the reason that it was not as good as the Freshman season when the latter was under Casey's control, lies absolutely outside of the fact that the Association has had to meet the depression and curtail its budget. I imagine this is what the writers mean when they refer to the actions of "an athletic administration with absolute authority over finances and publicity." Who should have this authority except an organization in contact not only with...