Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With television cameras focused on me as I welcomed the Shah and his wife, Farah, I tried to pretend that nothing was wrong. But that day-Nov. 15, 1977-was an augury. The tear gas had created the semblance of grief. Almost two years later, and for 14 months afterward, there would be real grief in our country because of Iran...
...minorities, on a Faculty exceeding 700. For all of the University's talk of eliminating racial differences among undergraduates, there are few institutions as racially "separatist" around Harvard as its own Faculty Club. As long as minority students must face a near-uniformly white Faculty, it is unrealistic to pretend that there is nothing different about being a minority student here...
...high school. After class, I would go home and release the pent-up frustration of unrequited love with my stereo. One track in particular spun over and over again on the turntable: "Bargain" by The Who. As the music blasted forth, I would listen to Roger Daltrey and pretend his golden throat was mine. In my dream, the brown-eyed girl would sit entranced while I half sang, half shouted Pete Townshend's lyrics: "I'd pay any price just to win you, Surrender my good life for bad, To find you, I'd suffer anything and be glad...
...course, one can always try the American approach and pretend to ignore the past entirely. Jews have generally taken the opposite tack: to yank the past into the present so forcibly that time has virtually no demarcations. Part of the Passover ritual is the exhortation that everyone in each generation feel he personally has just gone out of Egypt. The presentness of death is a central element of Judaism. The various prayers of lamentation, the practice of shivah (the seven-day period of mourning), the published announcements of grief, all lie at the heart of a faith that looks solely...
...reputation for being a hood, and greasy hair? I don't want to be a hood, but even if I don't steal things and mug people and get boozed up, I'm marked lousy. Why should I be proud of it? Why should I even pretend to be proud...