Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Landers said the most important thing she does is to direct those with problems to professional help. "I don't try to play God or pretend to be an authority on any subject. I know the best men in every area and rely extensively on their judgement...
...allow us into the bakery. The film means us, you see, to perceive the "world of adults" as 13-year-old Veronique Prevost perceives it--with our noses pressed bemusedly against the window. For she, supposedly, is at just that stage of life (probably non-existent, but let's pretend) when she can catch all of life's cruel ironies with an innocent eye and still not let them overwhelm...
Bharati also jostles some halos in his discussion of mystical procedures. The swamis like to pretend they can snap into samadhi whenever they want, but Bharati says it just is not so. "No determined set of actions, no planning for mysticism, guarantees its occurrence." But surely yoga and meditation help? Brusquely, the author crumples yet another cherished Occidental illusion. In the finest Indian monasteries, postulants are taught that there is "no causal relationship" between spiritual exercises and the mystical culmination. At least half of all mystical experiences come un-summoned. Then why bother to do the exercises? Bharati...
...mile stretch of highway between Ann Arbor and Detroit, even housewives in curlers pretend they are Mario Andretti. But one morning last week drivers revving up for the dash to Detroit found all lanes blocked by a trio of cars traveling abreast at 55 m.p.h., the legal speed limit. Behind the wheels were Stephen W. Long, Elizabeth Ann Lipski and Bruce Nielson, three friends who had taken it upon themselves to enforce the law. Their cars were decorated with signs reading GAS SHORTAGE and STAY ALIVE...
...breaking out (succeeding three times). During the few years he spent at large, he thought about almost nothing but emptying banks (he succeeded an undisclosed number of times, but failed often enough to account for his years in the cooler). Sutton confesses to being unreformable, and does not pretend that the buffetings of fate made him that way. Having thus alarmed his readers, he goes on shamelessly to reveal that he is kind, brave, generous, loyal, patient, intelligent, well read, nonviolent, and courteous to old ladies. Less deserving souls have been appointed to federal judgeships...