Word: pretenders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard does not pretend to be a music conservatory. Yet its admissions department strongly encourages serious musicians to apply. Performers can participate in any one of a number of organized ensembles, including the Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra, the Bach Society, the Ensemble Society, the Wind Ensemble, the Harvard Jazz Band, and numerous choral groups. They have access to facilities as good as any in the Ivy League, and they can major in a department that specializes in music theory, composition and history...
...course--and it could be almost any place in the Pine Tree State. It could run just out of sight of the ocean up past Damariscotta and Pemaquid. It could run through potato country in Arostook. It could be bordered by blueberry stands, like the roads near Bar Harbor. Pretend there are some mountains, and it could be near Rangeley and the lakes area, or even in the shadow of mighty Katahdin...
...proportional number of Blacks and Hispanics in the armed forces, in the industrial labor force, employed as domestic workers and on unemployment. On average, Blacks earn only a little more than half of what whites do. And those discrepancies represent the single most important domestic issues America faces. To pretend, as the majority does, that they can be dismissed as too global or too hopeless a concern is lazy and defeatist...
...worked for accommodation with the unions. "There is trust in him and his uniform," Walesa told the strikers last week. "Jaruzelski is a good man," said a Warsaw taxi driver. "No known girlfriends. No dacha. No money stashed away. Not like others who are not as equal as they pretend...
...Pretend that you have been to all the landmarks before and are bored by them. Five minutes in the Louvre is enough to say you've been there...