Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secured his U.S. citizenship) underlines the truth that the tragedy of America admits of few clear villains. In like manner, Cowan understands that the shocking racism of many Peace Corps volunteers (one wanted to enlist in the Marines after his Ecuadorian stint so that he could shoot Vietnamese and pretend that they were "Ekkies," i.e., Ecuadorian spic/nigger/kikes) was a horrible perversion of their stymied idealism...
...only way that I have been able to understand the war is to pretend that 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 eighty thousand Americans. All of America could not begin to digest that much sorrow...
When you read a story about a battle, pretend you were in it. I was going to spare you from meeting one of my friends. but I thought that the 43 per cent of the freshman class who still wanted Thieu and Ky to win needed him. If you think hard enough about him, and his friends, you'll be in the streets Wednesday afternoon...
...same is true of the anger against what the black regards as the white oppressor. Self-hatred is one channel that the black uses to reduce his anger. There are other ways, and the black has tried them all: compliance (love the enemy, or pretend to), denial of rage (the happy-go-lucky black), sublimation (diverting the repressed energy of aggression into such outlets as sports, music and the dance). Oppression's victim can also take refuge in apathy, alcoholism and drugs. All three are routes that some American blacks-as well as American Indians, Mexican, Americans and some...
...pretend that the Administration or Faculty is responsive is absurd." he added. "To pass this resolution is to say that the status quo must be maintained, even if it destroys surrounding communities, and even if it is racist...