Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business. Evie Gordon makes the rounds of up to two dozen cocktail parties and receptions a week, seldom takes notes but remembers what she sees or hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will...
...denying their liberty to do this? It would seem therefore that we merely befriend liberty in a relative way; i.e. by granting the liberty (within the limits of law) to all in accord with us; Thus, in opposing communism as such, we are also a tyranny, and thus cannot pretend to represent true liberty in the first place (e.g. in being as supra-liberal minded; as the CRIMSON, so as to exclude opposed views...
...conclusion, it was very easy to like The Cocktail Party for the wrong reason; it is even more simple to dislike The Confidential Clerk for something it does not pretend to be. In its evangelical message, it seems strangely more Calvinistic than Anglican (man find God through himself without mention of the church and with a predestined role). And these moralistic overtones make the characters into theological robots rather than into the crisp, little chessmen of The Cocktail Party. Mush as I enjoy the intellectual exercise The Confidential Clerk imposes, I had the feeling, when it was all over that...
...Pretend (Sat. 2:05 p.m., CBS). Radio adaptation of Robin Hood...
...power, and it faces up to the strategic prospect actually confronting the U.S., i.e., that the enemy has a choice of forcing either all-out atomic war or limited war upon this nation. The plan will cost less because it follows a principle laid down in Baltimore: "We cannot pretend to do everything in every field all the time...