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...might all be prototypes of a certain kind of Japanese aesthetics (the Japanese Book of Tea reads almost like a pure invention of Wilde's, with its "cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence"). Yet Wilde also saw that silver generalities conceal basic copper truths: "The actual people who live in Japan," he wrote, "are not unlike the general run of English people...
...pored over the forensic evidence, Wheaton became convinced that the plane had suffered a precrash explosion -- and that there had been a U.S.-Canadian conspiracy to conceal the cause of the accident. "If the truth about this crash had gotten out in 1985," he says, "it would have exposed the Iran-contra scandal one year before it became public...
There is a nostalgic idealism in the Hibernians' desire to conceal homosexuals within their community when most Americans realize that homosexuality is a reality everywhere. Their reaction is analogous to parents' disbelief--"Not in my family!"--upon learning of their child's homosexuality...
Modern families too cruelly conceal death from us. With only one or two siblings, one or two aunts and uncles and grandparents with one or two siblings, we face death infrequently...
...confess that we ourselves do not regard such acts as intrinsically morally offensive. We confess that we do find it offensive to conceal an attack on a particular--in our view courageous, intelligent and generous-hearted--individual in an act of prayer...