Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With his latest book, USSR In Crisis. Marshall Goldman does not pretend to provide startling revelations that finally answer all the questions about the Soviet Union. The author, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, is too aware of the ambiguities of Soviet life too conscious of the blinders any Westerner is forced to wear when looking at the USSR, to go out on a limb. Indeed, he performs an adept juggling act, usually balancing all sides to a problem and never maintaing that his findings are the truth. But his lucid study convincingly details the major dilemmas that...
...four people said the College had satisfied them academically. The poll found considerable disappointment over the handling of women's and minority issues, but the response to the broader questions gives a clear picture of the undergraduate mood. It's just not as gloomy as we like to pretend...
Even more bizarre was Watt's assertion in a recent Business Week interview that the American environmentalist movement is a totalitarian front. In Watt's view, environmentalists only pretend to care about fish, fowl, and forests. Their more sinister real purpose is to bring "central planning" to the American economy and to "subordinate the dignity of man." It's night-malish vision to be sure--just imagine Woodsy the Owl in jackboots with a club--but a little improbable...
Every one of us, straight or gay, came from a union of male and female. To pretend that the basis for marriage or the family structure is anything but that is intellectually dishonest. We should not allow ourselves to be intimidated into passing legislation to accommodate these self-styled martyrs and misfits...
...Navy ensign whom Daughter Shelby has married after two days' acquaintance. The phone rings; it is Son David explaining that he just drove the family car into the Central Park lake. In the living room their parents are doing their radio show live; they must pretend that domestic crises are stopped at the door, like tieless men trying to get into "21." After all, Princess Grace is going to call any minute now from Monaco for an "eggsglusive" interview...