Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army ROTC in Thursday's CRIMSON. Amused, because the article was obviously written in a hurry without complete knowledge of the entire ROTC program. Disappointed because, although I don't believe he intended to do so, the comments of the writer appeared to associate him with those who pretend a tolerant disdain for things military; an attitude that is all-too-prevalent, but which denies everything which Harvard and American education should represent...
...Hills, Calif., Cab Driver Perry Tartas reported to police that three men held him up, got away with $22 while one, left behind to finish the job, muttered before he ran to join his confederates: "I'll give you a break; I'm supposed to slug you; pretend you're hurt...
...shambles that is being made of our bipartisan foreign policy." His story: "I did everything I could to keep foreign policy out of partisan politics. But the Republican politicians attacked our foreign policy so violently in the 1952 campaign, they were stuck with their own propaganda. They had to pretend to change the foreign policy whether the change was good for the country or not. [They] cut down our armed forces-in the face of growing Communist strength -so they could claim to reduce Government spending. When they boast about the reduction, they don't tell you that every...
...would be idle to pretend that my health can be wholly restored to the excellent state in which the doctors believed it to be in mid-September. At the same time my doctors report to me that the progress I am making toward a reasonable level of strength is normal and satisfactory. My future life must be carefully regulated to avoid excessive fatigue. My reasons for obedience to the medical authorities are not solely personal; I must obey them out of respect for the responsibilities I carry...
Buber points always to the duality of things-good v. evil, love v. justice, order v. freedom. But he offers no happy middle way between them. Man must not try to choose either-or, nor may he pretend that no real contradiction exists; he can only accept the tension of both opposites. "According to the logical conception of truth," he says, "only one of two contraries can be true, but in the reality of life as one lives it they are inseparable. I have occasionally described my standpoint to my friends as the 'narrow ridge.' I wanted...