Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Children's Show: Let's Pretend...
...those who feel this "influence," I assume you mean the army of obscure versifiers who pretend to write poetry but rarely come close...
...worldwide conspiracy against the way of life of the free democracies. They are ready to destroy our lives if we do not agree with them. They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy rejects...
...slavery which means death to millions . . . The Mexican wetbacks entered the United States illegally to work on farms and orchards. They swam the Rio Grande seeking this 'slavery.' But there is no record of anyone crossing any body of water to reach a Russian concentration camp. To pretend that the two evils are at all comparable is to perpetrate an enormous and dangerous falsehood...
Fuchs is a type of traitor which the U.S. has recently and reluctantly come to recognize. It is the type of the intelligent, talented, apparently sincere man who suffers from Communism's moral cancer, the man who can calmly do wrong and pretend to himself that he is doing right-because in his mind he has obliterated right & wrong. As such he is far more dangerous than the mere mercenary spy. These excerpts from Fuchs's confession are a case history of the man who was finally caught by the police, and by the raddled vestiges...