Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pleasure merchants with an almost endless assortment of direct satisfactions for their clientele," he writes. "None of these pleasures have anything to do with the sane satisfactions of sound psychotherapy." The right way to do psychotherapy, he says, is to look at the nightmares: "If you look away and pretend they are not there, you will feel better for a while, but you'll pay the price...
...half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within days, one member of the party is found hanged from a tree, another has apparently dematerialized in a paranormal occurrence, and the rest have scattered...
They should oppose the CRR because at allows the University to discipline students without responsibility and--because the body is supposed to include students--to pretend the discipline is a community censure when...
...Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable if cockeyed determination to cope. They face their nearly intolerable burdens with a giddy, all-mocking humor, a pretend merriment that at times becomes infectiously real...
...most important, is the issue of responsibility. While the University--and Dean of the College John B Fox Jr. '59 in particular--preaches about students taking responsibility for their actions, the University is unwilling to take responsibility for its actions. By including students on the committee the University can pretend that those disciplined were judged by the community as a whole and not by an administration trying to rid itself of young troublemakers. Moreover, it is not the place of students to pass judgement on their peers...