Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During the Nazi reign, humanity could pretend to know nothing about the atrocities. During the Nigeria-Biafran conflict everybody knew it was plain genocide -which will probably be the final Biafran solution, now that the conquest of Biafra is accomplished...
...well-educated Egyptians emigrate, many to Canada, despite blocked funds and other difficulties. The lower classes, who account for much of the city's population of 5,000,000, still believe whatever the government radio tells them; the bureaucrats who owe their jobs to the regime at least pretend to do so. But even the fellahin and timid clerks must eventually begin to wonder at the insouciance with which Israeli pilots have begun to bomb around their capital...
...concentrate and pretend...
...Stalin's leadership a function of his political genius, and ultimately of the inexorability of his secret police. Such an acknowledgment would have been an admission that Marxism is not a "science of the future." And Stalinism it might be said, is what happens to Marxism when men pretend that it is a science of the future...
...University to continue storming into University Hall as if every single aspect of Harvard policy is decided here. And I think it fair to point out to you that the deans had not been parties to your discussion on construction work. But then you would presumably have me pretend-because you say I should have nothing to do with Harvard's hearings in that I am black-I was not here during the occupation, and that my office was not taken over. I wonder what you would think of me if I did that? I don't think you would...