Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defending free speech means more than mouthing pieties about its importance in a democratic society. Thus, after a brief detour to explain first principles, he devotes the bulk of his letter to commenting on individual issues relating to free speech. While he admits, with Bokian modesty, that he cannot "pretend to answer all the questions and problems that could arise involving free speech," he does manage to provide a good number of thoughtful answers...
With this background, I will comment on several issues of varying degrees of difficulty. In doing so, I will not pretend to answer all the questions and problems that could arise involving free speech. So much turns on the particular facts of each situation and the situations are so numerous and hard to predict that no one could aspire to present a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Instead, I have tried to choose a sample of questions growing out of the recent incidents at Harvard and other campuses in the hope of clearing up some of the confusion that...
...David Obey warms up the crowd by exclaiming, "When the sun comes out in Merrill, the Democrats are going to win!" Intermittent rain begins to fall. Mondale gamely pushes on to Long Beach, Calif; the sound system fails three times. Each time Mondale has to stop, and then must pretend to be emotionally worked up as he starts again. Few are moved...
...dopers' tone poem like The Connection or this dated, indifferent travelogue through the seventh circle of hell. An actor can both inhabit his character and stand outside it, flashing signals to the audience that say, "I'm not really this lowlife, but it's fun to pretend." Perhaps that is why the audience at off-Broadway's spacious new Minetta Lane Theater, where Balm moved last week after a successful run at the Circle Rep, looks to be enjoying the play a bit too much for its own good. They are sharing not a drink...
...prepare for their prehistoric personas, Hannah and the rest of the cast had to learn to throw spears, use slings to hurl stones, build a fire without matches, communicate in a special sign language and, most demanding of all, claims the leggy lady, "act in the cold and pretend we're warm. Even with those furs, it's freezing in the Yukon...