Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the people on the kibbutz are weak and tired this morning because of last night's attack, but everyone tries to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary has happened. In a way, nothing has. The battle was business as usual. Obviously, the kibbutzniks are fighting a psychological as well as a military war with the Palestinians...
...very devilishness of the complexities, however, forces Government to keep trying new ways to tame inflation. No policymaker can pretend to himself any longer that it will subside on its own, and every national poll identifies inflation as the issue that most worries voters...
...usual, the persons responding to my review--many of them students of sociobiology--react vehemently, but fail to grasp the most important questions I attempted to pose in my critique of DeVore's lecture. Although I have read extensively on the subject, I will not pretend to be competent enough to debate the sociobiologists on their own grounds, nor did I attempt to do so in my piece. I did attempt, however, to expose some of the philosophical assumptions and value-judgements implicit in the study of how genes affect human behavior and society. Not simply judgments about the ultimate...
...biggest impression was made by an autobiographical sketch of Gorky's. It "was an excellent metaphor for how I felt. One must consider the idea of the artist as orphan, an orphaned prodigy, whose parents find him some where?the bulrushes, perhaps. To pretend to be an orphan, alone, is a form of narcissism. I suppose all children have this disgusting form of self-pity; but more so the artist, who is Robinson Crusoe. He must invent his stories, his pleasures; he succeeds in reconstructing a parody of civilization from scratch. He makes himself by education, by survival, by constantly...
Just stepped off the plane from Florida and it sure doesn't seem like the spring sports season is here. If this keeps up I'm going to be back there very soon. But for the meantime, I'm going to pretend that it is 85 degrees and I'm going to stroll around Cambridge covered with suntan...