Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volunteer who talks with people like this finds it hard to know how to react. As Pitzele has said, "it is difficult to decide whether to contradict the patient, suggest that he means something else, or pretend to believe the statements and continue the conversation on that basis. As most volunteers are considerably younger than the average patients, they are reluctant flatly to contradict the patients' statements--a discourtesy in any case--although it seems impossible to agree. I think that an all too frequent reaction is to try turning preposterous statement into jokes and to leave it at that...
...simply this: Shall the United Nations survive? Shall the attempt to bring about peace by the concerted power of international understanding be discarded?'' As for Hammarskjold himself, "he needs no defense from me. His record is an open book . . . Let the Soviet government, if it wishes, pretend that he does not exist; it will find that he is far from a disembodied ghost, and it will find that peace-loving states will continue to support his patient search for the right road to security and peace in the Congo...
Social Relations does not even pretend to offer junior tutorial. Instead, it requires concentrators to take what it calls "Junior Seminars," in which groups of about a dozen students gather to do research. Teaching this may be, but tutorial...
Given funds, on the other hand, the Economics department could add instructors, but since the deficiencies of the present program are less conspicuous, the staff can pretend that Economics 98 is adequate...
...Faculty, and the name of the office has been changed from the Office of Student Placement to the present title. "Since there are more than 50,000 Harvard alumni," Richard G. King, Director of the Office, explains, "we can't do the job for all. We don't pretend to be able to help men like Bigwood...