Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychologists, however. We do not pretend to understand the reasons behind this most unfortunate incident. We know only the fact: a sixteen-year-old boy was cruelly beaten, beaten by three men whose combined weight was over four times his own. The assailents were, supposedly, mature young...
...pretend to know all the answers. We are of one mind, however, in believing that Christian people have an especial responsibility for the solution of our racial problems and that if, as Christians, we sincerely seek to understand and apply the teachings of Our Lord and Master we shall assuredly find the answer . . . We do believe that all Americans, whether black or white, have a right to the full privileges of first-class citizenship. To suggest that a recognition of the rights of Negroes to the full privileges of American citizenship, and to such necessary contacts as might follow, would...
Unpleasant Revelation. Why, asks Author West, has the world so falsified the character of Hamlet? "If a work of art should make a revelation which discredits what most human beings wish to believe," she writes, "they pretend that the author wrote something quite other than what he did." The world, she theorizes, would rather not swallow the "revelation" contained in Hamlet...
...clear that it is in no sense of the word a university. It teaches neither Greek nor Latin. There is no English department, no chemistry laboratories and no astronomical observatory. There are only the School of Mathematics and the School of Historical Studies; the Institute does not pretend to a complete coverage of all, or even a few, fields of learning...
...makers of this film lay bare the relationship between three people: a successful Hollywood producer, his wife, and his teen-age son. The plot focuses on the boy, who gets into trouble with the police by--justifiably--hitting a movie theatre manager. But this is not, and does not pretend to be, another of those romanticised pseudo-Freudian essays on the causes of juvenile delinquency. It is a story of people who are sane and whole, but who have the same problems of knowing and communicating with each other that the members of all families have...