Word: denialism
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...Clintonophobia" is an abnormal condition that strikes many conservatives today and manifests itself in the classic four Ds of their politics: denial, delay, derision and division. Unable to bring substance to the pressing issues of the day, conservatives see in the Clintons their worst fear: an activist Administration with a progressive social agenda that won't retreat from its goals...
...this encounter, this denial, this slow growth, even this promise of an epiphany into a new level of concern and consciousness that we see take place in the film...
...disease spread precisely by the sexual act, by contact, all those questions of responsibility, all that personal fear now coming to include those others--all those questions must in someway be met (although suppression and denial may be offered among the other `answers...
...permissible to let one's guard down. Early last week Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa did just that over an eel-and-sake dinner in a fancy Tokyo restaurant, confiding to his dining partners that he wanted to quit. His indiscretion was immediately leaked to the press, prompting an official denial that same night. Three days later, however, Hosokawa set his resignation in motion. A popular reformer who came to power last August pledging to sweep out "money politics" was outrun by a scandal of his own making...
...movies and cigarettes for a week. But as in baseball, where he passionately rooted for the hapless Chicago Cubs along with his hometown Minnesota Twins, he came to defend the underdogs in life: blacks, women, gays, aliens, Native Americans. By 1977, in a dissent from the majority's denial of funds for Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize." Just two months ago, he came to the defense of life's greatest losers when he pronounced that "I shall no longer...