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...apparently, it has received roughly the same amount of attention -- that is, none. It hardly seems to bother even the most sanctimonious of our journalists and human-rights watchers, and concerned Jews will not raise the issue for fear of being condemned as opponents of peace. Arabs simply pretend as if nothing had happened--always quick, however, to raise a furor against real or imagined Israeli transgressions...
...star machismo. At the end of a guest stint on Laugh-In, TV's vaudeville for the Nixon years, he stared moonily into the camera, then yanked off his toupee, revealing a few vagrant strands of hair. The ardor, the bedroom voice, the coiffure--it's all pretend, see? Acting...
Paleontologists don't pretend to know everything about how Homo erectus lived, but it's a safe bet the ancient prehumans passed their days in unremarkable ways. Their language was probably little more than a system of gestures and grunts. Their diet, consisting of foraged fruits and crudely cooked animals, was not an easy one to force down--if the attachment points on their skulls for stout chewing muscles and their large front teeth suggest anything. Their skill in making tools was limited: a flaked stone or a crude ax was probably as good as it got. They arose...
...classification in a minority or discriminated group. One cannot publicly say, "Wow, she's a woman and she's the head of an investment bank." Or "Wow, a Black student has been elected a class marshal." Neither of these would have happened 30 years ago. Let us not pretend these groups have always enjoyed positions of authority and leadership. Let us not pretend such accomplishments have come easy. Let us not take the erosion of racial and sexual prejudices for granted. Let us instead celebrate their long awaited and well earned arrival...
...wrote something eerily similar to this quotation during my first year at Harvard in a dissent to a staff editorial. "Why pretend that the U.C. is or can be representative of student opinion, or that it can or will act on our behalf?" I questioned. "No one cares about it, and its members perennially return the feeling. The council is an impotent farce. Obviously, true student government does not exist at Harvard. We are ruled by the College administration. It is time to end the charade. Abolish...