Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bravo for Governor Rockefeller! I am tired of seeing people pretend that "Christianity" gives them the right to impose their personal moral values on others...
Because man "is frightened to death by the specter of death," he tries to pretend that it does not exist, at least not for him; in the subconscious mind, "it is other people who die." Studying 350 terminal patients, Weisman found that denial can take many forms. Often a gravely ill patient, alarmed at being in a hospital, may say, "My doctor wants to be sure I don't have anything serious." Sometimes a sick person, worried about his loss of weight, may go on a diet to have a reassuring reason for the loss...
According to Weisman, psychological suffering cannot be relieved until physical pain has been eased. Yet doctors may refuse sufficient medication, sometimes on the ground that they fear addiction-a meaningless concern on the eve of death. Too little medication lets the doctor pretend, subconsciously, that the patient is not sick enough to die and may betray the doctor's unwillingness to admit to himself that he is not a "magic healer" who can save every patient...
...rising minorities below, must justify its accomplishment by a particular social myth. It must idealize the simpler, more in- dividualistic society of the past. It must reject racial equality because it symbolizes the new changes. It must yearn for the real uniformity and closeness of the old society and pretend that they still exist: there would not be such loyalty to the myth of the neighborhood school if the new suburbs really were neighborhoods of the old type...
...conversation with "far-outs" the way other people use casual obscenities. Dick, underneath the smooth exterior a creep held over from the fifties who's reported to be making it with his tutor's wife. Most importantly, Mike and Cootie, two blithe spirits, masters of the put-on, who pretend to hold-the show together through the incantatory appeal of their preposterous school-boy jive...