Word: denialism
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...Denial of equal opportunity on the grounds of race, gender, religion, nationality or political affiliation (among other possible criteria) has long since been barred," the letter said. "Discrimination based on sexual orientation thus remains a curious anomaly...
...basically it's all one thing: falling." That reminds him of a Rilke poem, Autumn. "The leaves are falling," he says in singsong paraphrase, playing the passage again, "falling from on high as if from heaven's dying orchards. And each leaf falls with its own special gesture of denial, saying...
Very nice. But invoking Rilke to demonstrate Bruckner is an impulse perhaps best confided to close friends, and certainly not to 100 or so impatient orchestra players. Besides, any conductor who was foolish enough to flog his musicians with images of leaves -- let alone leaves whimpering in denial -- would be hooted off the podium at the first fluttering whimp. Thomas learned a lesson on this point in his callow days during a rehearsal of Also Sprach Zarathustra with the Chicago Symphony. All his schoolboy nattering on the intellectual subtext of Strauss evoked only sly mockery from the musicians. At length...
...ordinary politician who had been accused of secretly developing nuclear weapons might simply issue a fervent denial or a terse "no comment." But there is nothing ordinary about Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. One week after his agents were caught trying to smuggle electrical devices used in nuclear weapons from Britain to Iraq, Saddam issued an angry disclaimer that served only to provoke greater international unease and outrage. "We do not need an atomic bomb," Saddam said. "We have the dual chemical. Whoever threatens us with the atomic bomb, we will annihilate him with the dual chemical." Recalling Israel...
...students so that they can look a homeless person in the eye, but to question the system that lets people fall through the cracks into an underclass from which there is very little hope of return. Housing is a right, not a luxury. Attitudes like Smith's encourage the denial of basic rights of citizens in a country that prides itself on democracy and justice...