Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...youngest American Presidents ever, Clinton attracted a flock of aides and interns just out of college: males who regarded mild flirtation as harmless fun, females who seemed to enjoy the attention. And whatever lessons he drew from the Gennifer Flowers embarrassment, Clinton has never felt it necessary to pretend that good-looking women are beyond his notice. Within the first months of his first term, the West Wing was crammed with them, pretty young interns "who had nothing better on their resumes than their good looks," says a woman who served in a senior policy job. "This is a President...
Alarcon: That's not my impression. In a way, he feels very happy that that issue [of succession] has been fundamentally solved. The answer is not to pretend that you have to have another Fidel. The problem is deeper than that: how to continue the development of the revolution. If you go through the party leadership, practically everybody now is 40 or below. They are definitely more capable than the people in charge at the beginning--putting aside Fidel, because Fidel is really a special case. He's a personality of history...
...class there are 20 men at least well qualified and willing to conduct a paper, nor are the rest at all backward with either their money or their good wishes. There is no disparagement in saying that the Advocate does not cover the whole ground; indeed, it does not pretend to. The perception of these facts has induced the Editors of the Magenta to offer a new paper to their fellow students. Its general plan is as follows...
College journalism has a borrowed vice. Young men, getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...profundity and likens it to Generation X: it lacked a defining moment. But behind each member of this week's event plurality lurks quite a good history. Here's a cinema trifecta of great movies that will make you smarter to boot. Watch and learn, and on Monday pretend you read it all in the Wall Street Journal...