Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brecht once wrote that the actors in his plays needed to remember that they could not become the characters they portrayed. An audience, Brecht said, had to be forced into viewing a drama with critical detachment. To pretend that the theatrical world is real or to win an audience's allegiance to a character through sentimental appeal is to deprive the audience of the opportunity to learn from a play, rather than merely to be entertained...
This list of restaurants does not pretend to be comprehensive--it almost totally excludes the more expensive restaurants around Harvard, and it misses more than one good Harvard snack spot. We've included a brief guide to some of the Square's watering holes on page...
Condon has unraveled. The world's villainy simply does not work so simply. To pretend that it does is mindless mischief...
...endearing rogue who puts his fat, pompous and moneyed betters in their places. At the behest of two lovelorn sons with two miserly fathers, Scapino engineers an endless repertory of deceptions with a blazing battery of slapstick. Whether mimicking the two dunderheaded old fossils, or mulcting them, or pretend-hiding them in sacks and flailing the daylights out of them with a cloth truncheon shaped like an oversize bologna, there is no stopping Scapino. Eventually caught out by the two old fogies, the superscamp gains their pardon, and hoodwinks the pair again, by pretending to breathe his last...
...processes of the justices, we can show when they are consistent or not. We get an understanding of the conflict in values that pervades our society. We don't look in the judicial process as if it were a machine with individual views submerged. There's no need to pretend that there is clarity in the Court's decisions. To reach a principled decision, it must be part of a dialectical process, responsive to changing conditions...