Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most famous--and the most telling--bits and snatches of Shakespeare. Richard II abdicates, and before his robes are fairly off, Hamlet is making plans. Romeo dies with a kiss on his lips, steps modestly back amid applause, and reads a sonnet. To juxtapose great speeches is to pretend that their greatness is sham, and give weight to the Puritan notion that the theatre is only a dirty trick...
When the tower of desire topples over at last, Kozol realizes you can't be a Harvardman and pretend you're not: "Thinking you could escape a system, and then finding out it had hold of you all along, and feeling it pull you back." Love probably implied forgiveness, and Kozol's Harvardman, who has a profitable insurance office in his future, cannot bring himself to forgive...
...even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools," led by Unitarian Minister James Brewer and Realtor Irving Truitt, plumped publicly for "a strong and complete public-school system"-and if necessary, gradually integrated. The committee's key point: no city can pretend to attract or hold business, industry or federal installations, e.g., the Norfolk Naval Base, with public schools closed. Next move: to warn the Governor and the legislature "that the great majority of responsible Norfolk citizens strongly favor continuous operation of a free and efficient public-school system under local direction...
...Tufts Arena Theatre is not in a class with the other two groups, nor does it pretend to be. It is a semi-professional institution whose members are still in the process of acquiring their basic crafts...
...They pretend not to force or impose on us. They insist, again and again, breaking us down. One is finally prepared to say: 'Well, have it your own way.' But they won't accept that. They want us to concede as though we proposed it, to submit as we would to our own self-imposed directives. What are we to do? Everyone well realizes that little by little, outward resistance will be weakened, that eventually, only one's innermost, secret adherence to faith will be possible...