Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson can't nest on its lead. The Falcons wouldn't stand for that. Instead, the home team must pretend that what the scoreboard says at the beginning of tonight's game--Harvard 0, Bowling Green 0--is true...
...attorney general wants it made clear that the group is not a spontaneous, upsurge for the people. It's funding for Seabrook," McCarthy said. "It's deceptive for them to pretend they're something other than advertising for the Seabrook nuclear power plant...
...character named Henry Zuckerman comes up with a decidedly odd idea. The setting is Henry's dental office in northern New Jersey; the atmosphere shimmers with the sexual tension generated for weeks now by the presence of Wendy, Dr. Zuckerman's new employee. " 'Look,' he said, 'let's pretend. You're the assistant and I'm the dentist.' 'But I am the assistant,' Wendy said. 'I know,' he replied, 'and I'm the dentist -- but pretend anyway.' " This fiction seems indistinguishable from the facts of the matter. But once the artifice begins, so does...
Others can play make-believe, of course; Roth has argued for years that everyone does so all the time. So let's pretend. Philip, the younger son of Herman and Bess Roth, was born in Newark in 1933. He . . . he was born in Newark . . . grew up loving baseball and enjoying summer outings to the Jersey shore. He was a bright student, and after graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he spent a year at the Newark extension of Rutgers University. Then, wanting to see something of the world outside his hometown, he transferred to Bucknell in central Pennsylvania, where...
Some of the worst productions (as well as some of the best) are served up by graduates of the Dramatic Arts courses. Their effect, is, I think, minimal. Technical expertise is at a premium, as any fool can pretend to act but very few can design a light plot. The ART and the unsung hero of Harvard theater, the Loeb's Don Soule, have made an effort to educate fledgling dramatists and designers in the basics, but we must admit that for training we should have gone to Yale or Carnegie-Mellon and press on without...