Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very personal and special pain that I have watched the events following that other explosion in the sky, TWA Flight 800. In particular I suffer over what the families are going through and will go through, all of which will be made worse by the way America tries to pretend there's no such thing as tragedy. The great grief scam has begun again...
Last summer, I didn't even pretend to start reading a classic. On a bookshelf in Barnes and Noble, I found the first book of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a series set in San Francisco about a group of strangely-paired friends. I was done with the sixth book a week later...
...summer approaches, I'll try to cram ever more books into my list of must-reads and probably get through about 10 percent of them. That's how it always is: so many books and never enough time to read them all. At least in school, one can pretend that there are a finite number of required books one must read to be educated in a certain subject. In real life, there are infinitely many, as many as the possible variations on a Bach fugue. In a way, it's comforting that the store of knowledge is never exhaustible...
...between eight and 12 times." Those numbers were invented. "The Russians believe that anything that's worthwhile is scientifically based," says Shumate. "This gave us a leg up when we started to seriously use focus groups to guide campaign policy, but right at the start it let us pretend that we knew more than we really did. There's no data supporting how many times something needs to be repeated, but the Russians bought it as gospel...
...pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that's all that agnosticism means." --CLARENCE DARROW...