Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretend to speak for Bobby [because] Bobby and I disagree on politics," said Dr. Regina Pustan, mother of Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. As it happened, police in Washington, D.C., disagreed too. Dr. Pustan arrived at the White House with an Uncle Sam Halloween mask, a plastic pumpkin and sign declaring TRICK OR TREAT: UNCLE SAM SAYS SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE. PEACE BY OCT. 31. Asked for her parade permit, she said, "This seems very peculiar. Do you need a permit to walk up and down with a sign?" Yes indeed, said a policeman as he put her under arrest...
...others of note. What really counted, as always, was his godlike status. He took pains to enhance it with Little Red Books, parades and ritual. This worked so well that when Mao was forced to take the desperate step of calling out the troops, he could still pretend that the country was well on the way to a Communist Utopia...
...want work-as-necessity, work as it is for a man. "Discovering for themselves how very difficult-how fraught with stress and anxiety-is the activity of making one's way in the world of work," most women, in their hearts, cherish smaller ambitions than they may militantly pretend...
Boston Repertory Theatre is an anomaly. They are non-political, and are not organized around the dominant "great" director, as most other small companies in Boston pretend to be. The attempt is rather to present a well-balanced program with enthusiasm and a fair degree of sophistication--a refreshing change. It's nice to have a company that does theatre not to sell its actors or their heads, but merely because it is good theatre...
Feeling - Mrs. Ashton-Warner's be loved "third dimension of personality" - is what she believes education is all about. Does affluence cause this deadness at the center? Is the villain the ubiquitous TV? Mrs. Ashton-Warner does not pretend to know. But she feels her self in the presence of "a new man evolving," a mutating personality, whom she refers to as a "Muperson...