Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their act, must sometimes want to buy a bowling alley and settle down, they have toured successfully for two years in such neon nirvanas as the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas and Manhattan's Latin Quarter, where they played last week. The secret is conspiracy. The Latin Quarter pretends that it is wild and wicked. The vacationing dentists who jam its tables pretend that they are hugely entertained when the comedian kicks the M.C. Their wives counterfeit sophisticated smiles when bare-breasted show girls jiggle onstage. And when the Crosby brothers admit that, boy, we really hacked up that...
Dimitri Villard as Neoptolemus brought little insight and meager stage presence to a demanding part. Neoptolemus, an honest, forthright youth, is forced by Odysseus into a double reversal of character. In order to fool. Philoctetes, he must pretend to be naive, that is, he must "play" himself. Villard's vapid interpretation excluded all this complexity. Thus, when the time came for him to break down and tell all to Philoctetes, he had not prepared the audience with any previous dramatic tension. His moment fizzled...
When secured of presenting a "destructive viewpoint," she replied that her outlook was actually optimistic. To say, "We can't answer these objections, so we will pretend they don't exist...shows little faith is the subject" the maintained...
...idea of revenge is not as welcome to the human race as the reality," Bently claimed. Men have to pretend it is "equitable punishment." They call it "justice a Fraud, both in private life and in the courts...
...would be idle," he declares, "to pretend that all our problems are soluble or that all errors can be avoided. We can, however, attempt to clarify our choices." It is to this task that he addresses himself in The Necessity For Choice...