Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major mental activity of Spring Weekend is pretending. To begin with, you have to pretend that Spring Weekend exists. You may notice that some of your classmates are not observing the event with proper jubilation; or not observing it at all. Some of the more cynical will even tell you that The Weekend is all a money-making plot on the part of some Harvard organizations. Do not believe them...
...make this great mental leap forward, it is possible to pretend that there will be some athletic competition this Saturday when four Harvard varsity teams play at home. This will take some effort though. The zany unpredictability that usually enlivens Harvard sporting events is unlikely to enter any of this weekend...
...arbitrary, capricious, and generally insignificant grades are as measures of interest, talent, and achievement in most of the courses they have taken. Yet when they enter the conference room on the tenth floor of Holyoke Center, they are faced with grade averages calculated to five digits, and they must pretend that an A instead of an A- in this course or that is a sure sign of intellectual capacities better employed. They have to play this game because academic achievement is defined as the principal criterion of intellectual capacity. If the tutor's comments are uninformed and uninformative, as they...
Included in the workshop will be instructions on how to use nonviolent techniques in dangerous situations. In the past such training has included little dramas, in which the trainee will pretend to be a field-worker, while other members of the group curse him, spit on him, shove, slap, and hit him. SNCC members have found that these practice sessions help make the real-life confrontations less strange and frightening...
...weeks playing tennis, reading books (17 in all) and trying to relax. He also dropped in on some old friends in the neighborhood, but after a few such visits his rest was almost ruined. Repeatedly, Scranton was given a sly wink, told what a cagey fellow he was to pretend that he didn't really want the 1964 G.O.P, presidential nomination, and assured that his political strategy was just right. One acquaintance let it be known that he had already underwritten $25,000 in Scranton-for-President campaign contributions...