Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously, it would be foolish for the West to pretend that Communism in 1965 is the same monolithic menace it once was; but it is equally nonsensical to regard Communism as a legitimate or benign form of government, or to suggest, as the London Times did recently, that Marxism may have "ceased to be an organized international movement...
...more than the editors of the New York Herald Tribune had bargained for. Writing once again from his own "neoisolationist" viewpoint, Lippmann declared: "My own view is that the conception of ourselves as the policeman of mankind is a dangerous form of selfdelusion. It is dangerous to profess and pretend that we can be the policeman of the world. How many more Dominican Republics can the U.S. police in this hemisphere? How many Viet Nams can the U.S defend in Asia...
...When I get ready to go, I'll say so-in plain English." That incredible prediction pointed up the reason for the whole mixup: Casey had been talking to city hall reporters, who specialize in municipal prose, New York dialect; it is only the sportswriters, after all, who pretend to understand Stengelese...
...added with a grin, "I don't pretend to be either illiterate or poor. I've had a lot of jobs that sound folky--but I was just a kid on vacation. I drove a truck for a while, until somebody discovered that I didn't have a license. Once I picked apples for five cents a bushel and all I could eat; I was only five at the time and didn't know any better. I reached the heights though, the summer I worked as a packager in a supermarket, a loyal member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butchers...
...word is usually understood in ethnically oriented New York. "I do not propose to walk the streets," he said. "I will not go to Irish centers and go dancing. I will not go to Jewish centers and eat blintzes, nor will I go to Italian centers and pretend to speak Italian...