Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gill's took doesn't pretend to be anything more than a collection of enjoyable anecdotes and the sort of behind-the-scenes glimpses that curious New Yorker readers hunger for. As a history of what, after all, began as a humor magazine. Here at The New Yorker can't be faulted. Gill and The New Yorker have come a long way since Gill was a writer of casuals for a new magazine whose first rule was never to write for "the old lady in Dubuque, but through it all a characteristic "New Yorker style" has been preserved...
...your analyst about the ironies of the psychoanalytic movement. The aura of authority in sheepskin diplomas and overstuffed leather couches came too painfully for him to let on that analysts go mad, or that Freud sometimes showed his slip. He'd rather pretend that the great controversies and little embarrassments never happened, or are so far in the past that, well, who remembers them? Psychoanalysts may have been torn by cult politics then, but that's history, he would say, now it's a science...
...march cannot get off Commonwealth Avenue. Riot police block the side-streets. The Irish security man for the Fred Hampton Contingents is "pissed off" at the police, but thinks the change of route was necessary, Indeed you must pretend to ignore the police--but do all they demand. There is a tacit agreement. Don't make a fuss and there will be no split craniums, Quiver...
...just have to get away from it all. Lying under a palm tree all day with no cousins borrowing money, no phone ringing with bad news, and no Wall Street Journal every day to tell you how badly your stocks are doing, you can act like royalty and just pretend for a week...
...would be the grossest distortion to pretend that editorial cartoonists are all Goyas in a hurry. Nothing inspires bromides like a deadline. Artists against the clock have too often relied on labels and fatigued metaphors to make their point. Back in 1925, The New Yorker lampooned the journeyman cartoonist with his crayoned clichés: the literalized Sea of Public Indignation; the bearded Radical; the masked thief with his tag of Crime Wave; the debt-ridden Commuter...