Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minds. But these differences of ideology and interest become quite evident and very real in the context of a struggle, such as the Strike of last spring. In such a situation when the men who run the University are trying their hardest to feign an anti-war posture and pretend that they have a harmony of interests with the students, any group which continually points to the war-related activities of the University, and advocates fighting alliances with a class of people already hostile to the men who run Harvard, is quite clearly a threat. A major preoccupation...
...wine, the time when you could construct your own cubicle, then we were lucky," says television's Dick Cavett, 33. "I look back now on my college days as a time of fantastic luxury." Above all, we were the last generation to accept without question-or to pretend to accept-the traditional American values of work, order and patriotism...
...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wyoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Vietnamese have been killed and probably 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest...
...used to think that war was Henry Fonda shooting it out behind a water trough on a dusty Wvoming street. Or Achilles chasing Hector around Troy. So the only way that I have been able to understand the war in Vietnam is to pretend, each time a GI or a Vietnamese died, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that died. By now over a million Viet-????? 80 thousand Americans. If all of us felt even a little bit of that in our stomachs, not even all of America could digest that much sorrow...
...acclaim and find ways of proving that irresponsible anti-war stands don't actually serve the North Vietnamese or National Liberation Front. But for those of us who aren't running for re-election next year, it is possible and very worthwhile to ask whether we should continue to pretend that we're not supporting the enemy in Vietnam when by our actions we plainly are. In fact, the anti-war movement has reached the stage where it finally can and should declare that it opposes the war not only because of the loss of life in Vietnam, nor solely...