Word: concealability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements of black Africa...
...Secret police and government informers have infected neighborhoods, factories and schools. Some parents are afraid of their own children, fearful that if their young ones hear them express their true political beliefs at home, they might unwittingly betray them. Those adults who oppose Saddam Hussein's regime have to conceal it: when the Iraqi leader appears on television, parents remind their youngsters to call him "Uncle Saddam...