Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that women fill different roles in society so they must be different. And if they are different they can have their own colleges and shouldn't be at Harvard. Women's Liberation explains how social roles have prescribed women's behavior, not vice versa. Dean Peterson does not even pretend that Harvard and Radcliffe are separate but equal, just separate and different. He wants to maintain the 4-to-1 ration not because they are getting an equal education elsewhere but because they can be better kept in their place elsewhere...
From time to time, the members of the cast line up, face the audience and flash shy, charming smiles. They march a lot too, keeping time by smacking sticks and shaking tambourines. They love to pretend they are being birds and animals. If necessary, they will speak. But they prefer to sing, dance or grunt as they mime their mysterious little charades−a kind of show-and-mostly-don't-tell...
Masters and Johnson take a modest view of their work. "We do not pretend expertise in anything," says Masters. "Ours is a small, somewhat determined research effort?the first study of the physiology, and to a major degree the psychology, of sexual function. Many people will be in the field in due course and will do a better...
While the Handbook doesn't pretend to reveal any magical tactics for earning a CO, it does provide nuggets of practical information for the sincere objector. Its extensive citations from court decisions. its quotations on what constitutes a "religious" objection, and its sampling of hostile questions from draft board members may make the difference between a successful CO claim and an unsuccessful resister, mired in the jungle or in jail. A detailed and sometimes gruesome description of court procedure and prison life is also necessary for those who plan complete resistance...
Lonergan does not pretend to comprehend everything, but only to offer a dynamic viewpoint in which everything may be seen to be part of an interrelated whole. It is at heart a simple method but, like Jesus' great commandment of love, it is not easy. Critics who say that it offers too many answers do not grasp the essential Lonergan. What he may offer, for many people, is too many challenges. Despite the promise of an ultimate horizon, there is in that offer no solid assurance of an answer that can be grasped in mortal life. There is only...