Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of a well-trained Communist. "You've got to make [it] as though it were true," explained a fellow prisoner who acted as a G.P.U. spy in the intervals when he was not making confessions himself, "and the examiner's got to be able to pretend to believe in it, otherwise the whole thing's no good...
Maugham is Britain's last playwright with Restoration blood in his veins. It is very cold blood; feeling curdles the comedy of manners. It can tingle at naughtiness, but it treats sex as a springboard rather than a swimming pool. Maugham's Constance Middleton can pretend ignorance of her husband's affair with her best friend, can lie to save them when the other husband learns the truth. And-for all that she and Middleton have fallen amiably out of love-she will not herself take a lover until she earns a living, is no more...
Powerful Symbol. In those 175 years, the gold key of PBK has become a powerful symbol in U.S. education. Though most off-campus Americans pretend not to care much about it, most know what it is. Those who wear it can be as different as Franchot Tone and Senator Paul Douglas, as Paul Robeson and Senator Robert Taft, as Byron ("Whizzer") White and Helen Wills Moody. But they all have one thing in common: they got good marks in college...
King's Expedition. Dr. Thalbitzer does not pretend to know how eight Swedes and 22 Norwegians got to Minnesota in 1362. But he repeats a theory developed by Hjalmar R. Holand, a Norwegian-American who has long championed the Kensington Stone. In 1356, according to Holand, King Magnus Ericksson of Sweden and Norway sent an expedition under Powell Knutsson to see what had happened to the Norse colonies in Greenland. When they found that the colonists were dead or had moved elsewhere, Knutsson's Norsemen pushed farther west. Eventually they reached Hudson Bay, and then the Great Lakes...
...Smiling Epilogue. Some old versions of the story end there, but Mann has found in others the makings of a remarkable epilogue: Sibylla makes a journey to Rome to beg the new Pope for absolution. The two pretend not to recognize each other, but Sibylla at last bursts out: "Father of my children, ever-beloved child!" Each finally acknowledges that even when they first met they knew each other as mother...