Word: denialism
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...still seems to believe in that, in some backhanded way, though he switched to club soda 20 years ago. He even gives boozing a momentary political justification: "Drinking became the medium of my revolt against the era of Eisenhower. Drinking was a refusal to play the conformist game, a denial of the stupid rules of a bloodless national ethos." How cunning is the sauce, the shapeshifter...
...have supporting roles in the movies that are other people's lives. Sometimes we are so enthralled with someone else that we barely star in our own. Denial of self becomes a silent declaration of love -- especially a first love like Sophie's. She could be a sister to Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart or a daughter to Stevens the butler in The Remains of the Day. This implosive sort of devotion is found often enough in life but rarely in films. That The Accompanist exists at all is the first reason to cherish...
...theming; Liberace and Michael Jackson and Siegfried and Roy; the water gluttony; the refusal to build schools and police stations. It is fair to say that Las Vegas is in denial, which probably explains the local predilection for smarmy euphemism. From Wayne Newton on down, every man in Vegas calls every woman a lady. One of the local abortion clinics is called A Lady's Needs. Signs all over McCarran Airport declare it a nonsmoking building, yet just as noticeable as the banks of slot machines is the reek of old cigarettes. It strikes almost no one as ironic that...
Brandeis was not alone. Although campus newspapers at such schools as Harvard, Yale, Berkeley and Wisconsin have rejected Holocaust-denial ads and commentaries, they appeared this fall in student publications at Northwestern, the University of Michigan, Notre Dame and Georgetown, among others. Everywhere, they provoked angry letters to the editors and heated campus debates...
...others that have appeared in the collegiate press since the 1991-92 school year -- were placed by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, which is headed by Bradley R. Smith, 63, a Visalia, California, pamphleteer. Smith, who spends most of his waking hours in Holocaust denial, wants open debate, he says, because the possibility that the Holocaust was a hoax goes unreported. Much of the material on which Smith bases his claims comes from the pseudointellectual journal of the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust-denial group in Costa Mesa, California, and the writings of Mark Weber...