Word: contradicted
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...action. This argument has some validity, since the opening of the second scene introduces the entire court and establishes the character of Claudius, but the first scene is necessary to define the supernatural character of Hamlet's obsession. Miller is cheating by omitting it, since it tends to contradict his whole Freudian interpretation...
...Soviet Union will triumph over the U.S., but that "the working class of the United States would bury its enemy, the bourgeois class." He offers surprisingly little hope for truly peaceful relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union: "Peaceful coexistence among different ideologies is not [possible]." History may contradict Khrushchev on that and many of his other judgments. But it is not likely to overlook the earthy, peasant-born Ukrainian who rose to become a world statesman, nor to forget his singular achievement: bestowing a measure of normalcy on the Soviet Union after the bloody aberrations of Stalin...
NOTHING Hersey says about the Yale faculty or administration would contradict the idea that they acted out of naivete, not cynicism. His account of the faculty meeting at which Yale decided its position on the Panther trial makes it a ceremony of innocence, with total catharsis coming when Brewster rises to say, "I am appalled, ashamed that things should have come to such a pass that I am skeptical of the ability of black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the United States." Suddenly, with this statement, Yale finds a purpose, and the whole university joins...
...unusual to find the evils of the Vietnam War displayed prominently on the front page one day, and the same slot filled by the wonders of the midi in Boston the next. The paper is, in short, inconsistent. It has staunchly liberal and stauncrly conservative reporters, who contradict each other constantly; and a conglomerate editorial page where editorialists have been known to run articles denouncing the columnists. Such divisions, however, are considered all part of putting out a good paper...
...letter-which was sent to each Senator and a number of newspapers-does not contradict "the prerogative of the President to seek a 'balanced' Court," Henry J. Steiner, professor of Law and one of the two drafters of the letter, said yesterday...