Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college experience is to increase our understanding and to act on only later. But many of us understand that the war is wrong. We promise that we will act as soon as we graduate: we will go to jail or leave the country, or feign mental or physical sickness, pretend to have "got religion" and go to the Divinity School, or really put one over on them and promise to be teachers, go to the Ed School, and then quit when the war is over. Let's be honest with ourselves, we've been bought, and bought cheap at that...
...wait until we have graduated? Why wait until they have us dispersed, spread out all over the country. Why wait until they can pick us off one by one. Why pretend that the time isn't now. Of course, it's inconvenient: there are exams and theses to write, but then one could ask why there are exams...
Dates & Limits. In his own climactic speech, Frei cut loose all of the pent-up frustration of three years. "I do not pretend to be the owner or the boss of the party," he said. "This could never be the attitude of a man who owes everything to the party." He had always, Frei said, discussed the main issues with members, and had invited them to his home for talks. "You must remember," he stressed, "that I have the responsibility of administering the country. You must not forget, dear companions, that the constitution has some regulations about dates and time...
...caper began last winter, when Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large...
...Wild 90 Mailer, with Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox-both of whom are real actors-pretend they have been holed up together for days. They yell at each other and chain-drink. The camera stays mostly on Mailer, who goes "Unhh! Unhh!" a lot while he is thinking up dirty words. People come and go. One is a prizefighter (José Torres) with a German shepherd. Norman has a protracted barking contest with the dog, and spars a round with Torres, demonstrating the killer-wombat style with which he has enlivened so many Manhattan parties. Toward the end, two broads...