Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of this country as long as I earn it legally." Said the union official: "You will just pick up your tools and get the hell back to Wilkes-Barre, where you belong." Snapped Pozusek: "Look, mister, I am not looking for trouble. I don't pretend to be smart or tough, and I am only going to tell you one thing-that I am a nervous type, and don't come here and start trouble for me, because somebody is going to get hurt." Said the unionist: "Trouble? You don't know the first damn thing...
Vienna is showing signs of resigning itself to the American era (the Vienna Conservatory of Music even offers a course in American musical comedy). Moreover, incurable operetta addicts are beginning to pretend that there really is not so much difference between the old and the new. Said one dreamy rationalizer: "I can see it all. Let's say Frank Butler is really a Hungarian cavalry officer who had to leave his country-some disgraceful duel over an actress. Annie is really the daughter of a millionaire Chicago meat packer. Call the whole thing The Duchess of Chicago...
...Miss Sarton shows in a lovely way at the end, Fur Person is a cat who becomes partly a person. But other cats don't. She can only write as she does, inevitably, about a Fur Person. She doesn't pretend to be writing about just a cat. That, she might agree, would be harder...
...extreme, even when buttressed by the sense of responsibility of the network, produces more lip service than performance, and mixes hypocrisy with the punditry. "At CBS," says one newsman at another network, "you just say 'Uh-huh' to the no-opinion policy and then go ahead and pretend to make omelets without breaking eggs...
...other plays by Williams, as well as works of Miller, Fry, and Chekhov, all of whom then had plays running in New York. While these men are among the best of modern playwrights, their works do receive quite frequent productions by the commercial theater. Obviously college theater should not pretend or even wish to be a substitute for the commercial stage. Its particular strength is the possession of an audience which is able and often willing to support others beside the cocktail-party playwrights...