Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli oppression of Palestinians in the occupied territories erodes Israel's claim to democratic perfection, the Zealots are exposed. It becomes more difficult for them to pretend that love of democracy is fundamental to their support of Israel...
...Iran to work with him for the release of nine American hostages held by Islamic groups in Lebanon. Since then the U.S. and Iran have carried on a delicate game of winks and nods, feints and gestures. The game sometimes requires both sides, for their own reasons, to pretend that they are not actually playing. And for the Americans, there is always the suspicion that the Iranian aloofness is for real...
...Haven is a cultural center, as well. The Yale Whiffenpoofs prove to all of us who sing in the shower that even if we have no talent, we can pretend to achieve musical greatness. The Yale School of Drama has given the American entertainment industry such enduring idols as "Fonzie" from "Happy Days...
Leaving the passions of the '60s aside, let us realize just where these omnipresent literary phrases originate. Professor Blumenthal is an associate professor of English, and to pretend that these quotations are his ready witticisms is to ignore the critical fact that they are also his stock and trade, the entire basis for his job here at Harvard. Freud's word was und, not oder...
Without offering a shred of evidence, the author proceeds to attack psychiatrists as "oddballs, Christ beards and psychotics" who were "exceptionally lonely and unhappy, socially ostracized at school and abused at home, either psychologically or physically." The article would make decent toilet reading if it didn't pretend to be nonfiction...