Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York when he was hired in London. But starting slowly may have been good fortune. Perhaps as a result Reston has never believed he had all the answers-or even, to listen to him, any of the answers. His first rule in gathering information is not to pretend to know a subject when he doesn't. "I do my homework on what the problems are," he says, "and then keep asking questions about the solutions...
...notice," Brooks observed, "that besides Stanford they are all either technological schools or state schools. Harvard just doesn't have the endowment in engineering to even pretend to compete with a university like Berkeley...
...down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle's cap. It is Jerkism to lie down on the floor of the White House or on the tracks of the Southern Pacific to 'protest' anything. It is Jerkism to drink three Martinis, and Jerkism to pretend that Pop Art is Art. It is Jerkism for a boy to grow his hair like a girl's, and . . . Jerkism for a nonrabbinical student to grow a beard. It is Jerkism to be a Communist, and Jerkism to be a John Bircher...
Hortense Calisher has a tidy and fervently loyal coterie whose members read everything she writes and pretend to understand it. They are courageous people, since understanding Hortense Calisher has to be an act of faith...
...guide advises girls visiting Yale to "look up with adoration and pretend you don't understand the dirty jokes that transpire all evening; look submissive, and some day you'll be a suburban mother." At Amherst, "traditions never die: Lord Jeffrey Amherst tried to deal with the Indian problem by sending them blankets contaminated with smallpox germs. Today, two centuries later, Amherst men are trying to cope with still another problem, but again with blankets." When going to Wesleyan, pack "knee socks, saltines (they never feed you) and a guitar." At Williams, beware of "the woods...