Word: denialism
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Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. It’s not Faunia who reveals Silk’s secrets to us, however, but the reticent Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), a reclusive writer whom Silk coaxes back to literary life. Part investigative journalist, part close friend, it is this would-be biographer who tells his story, discovers the truth behind Silk’s carefully engineered identity, and decides to write a book about Silk’s twisted and difficult journey from...
...discussing whether to let their 13-year-old daughters get their navels pierced. "Their conversation," he says, "was really about the same issue, the sexualization of children and youth culture." (Raising that subject on the network that gives us The O.C. and Paradise Hotel is either denial or genius...
...started? Last year, Nelson Mandela and I were asked to close the International AIDS Conference in Barcelona. While I was there, Denzil Douglas, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, came up to me and said, "We don't have a problem in the Caribbean of [AIDS] denial, we have a problem of capacity. We have neither the money nor the systems necessary to meet this challenge. Will you help us set up nationwide systems of care and treatment?" And I said, "Sure." I had no clue how I was going to do it . . . but I knew it needed...
...little bit . . . You can only stay in denial so long . . . He was exposed to two articles by people - I'm ashamed to say they were Americans - who said HIV doesn't cause AIDS , and the medicine could kill you. He also had a legitimate substantive issue: South Africa had given out anti-TB medicine without a proper protocol and they wound up spawning some more virulent, drug-resistant strains. But we just kept on working...
...involvement a victory for the administration. It’s a beautiful thing to convince an alcoholic that he needs treatment, or religion—or both in Bush’s case—but it’s only a victory insofar as admitting defeat and ending denial are the first steps to starting over. Just as when Congress approved $87 billion for reconstruction on Friday, the U.N.’s unanimous vote was more about resignation than confidence...