Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to several Caribbean schools offers little that would contradict the arguments of critics. Most operate on shoe string budgets and breakneck schedules, cramming a semester's work into four or five weeks. The aptly named Spartan Health Sciences University on St. Lucia has only two full-time professors. The physiology and biochemistry departments occupy one room, separated from the hallway by a beaded rope curtain. The microbiology laboratory consists of a few rough wooden tables. Students are advised to bring their own microscopes...
Given the supposition that "artistic license" allows artists to flaunt tastelessness and crudity, symbols still cannot contradict truth. There was that circumcision. There is also another historical fact: in Christ's time men were crucified with their backs to the cross, facing spectators; women, the other...
...whether Crile might have cut corners in his reporting, Stringer remarks, "I should have known I wouldn't get fair journalism off him." As executive producer of the show, Stringer is expected to be a key witness in CBS'S defense, but his taped words seem to contradict what he said about Crile in a deposition for the case. Under oath Stringer testified, "I think he's a careful journalist...
That commission has turned up several witnesses whose accounts directly contradict the government's official explanation. But the investigation is just one of the thorns in Marcos' side. On the southern island of Mindanao and elsewhere, some of the 10,000 armed Communist insurgents belonging to the New People's Army have gathered enough popular support to operate what amounts to local surrogate governments. In the absence of financial support from abroad, moreover, thousands of citizens are destined for unemployment and hundreds of factories for closure. The coming election may only compound Marcos' woes...
...some of the family by huddling close to the ground makes an allegorical point the cleverest way to weather totalitarian storms is to lay low and wait for them to pass over Donoso uses satire as a way of bringing out his allegory, but at times the two messages contradict each other almost as it the novel is questioning the validity of both device...