Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars will be sitting still or rusting away. We'll have no gasoline. But to act now in terms of what is going to be the situation 20 years from now would require a kind of judiciousness, at least, which we simply do not have. We would much rather pretend that we can go on forever, just the way we are now. And that's the whole philosophy of a country where no one ever really dies. We ignore it. We're going to solve everything, do everything, live forever. It's not true. It's simply not true...
...evidence we have says those blessed scores don't say a damn thing about contribution or competence," Cahn said, adding that "to the extent that universities pretend or hide behind the facade of tests and numerical criteria, they regress in this question...
...relocated Easterner I have tried for two years to pretend that Southern California has an autumn season. I put corn on the door, wheat by the mantel -and long for a brisk wind to put "apples" in my cheeks. For all my hard work I'm rewarded with a Santa Ana wind and hot, dry, hellish weather. I think it's a cruel price to pay for a gloriously sunny January...
Autumn is honest, it does not pretend to be heaven. Yet almost everybody recognizes that the season's character transcends those familiar bracing days, crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted skies, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and that riotous foliage that impels whole traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England (even though Columnist Russell Baker has reminded them that "if you've seen 1 billion leaves, you've seen them all"). What is not widely recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter...
Arthur MacEwen, a former Harvard economics professor who now teaches economics at UMass, Boston, says it is "excessively naive at best" for HIID to consider itself an apolitical organization. "When you become an adviser, you can't pretend you're not involved with the politics of the client government, and HIID has done work with some pretty despicable governments in the past...