Word: denialism
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Also Thursday, police and military officials in Beirut renewed their denial of any U.S. military action anywhere in Lebanon, following rumors that U.S. Marines were landing to attack Shiite guerrillas...
...secret of Therese's overnight success was simple: she had a genius for loving Jesus. "Passing by me," she wrote, "Jesus saw that I was ripe for love. He plighted His troth to me and I became His." No self-denial attended this betrothal, only the deepest and most radiant devotion. Therese was a vibrant teenager, bursting with the juice of sanctity, and in Christ she found the ideal outlet for her holy passion. She reveled in his ascetic good looks, his impossible demands, his gentlemanly reticence. For Therese, God was the perfect man -- an amalgam of loving husband, righteous...
Although the editorial correctly states Harvard's denial of charges that it circumvented the collective-bargaining process, it goes on to say, "This is not the first time the University has refused to bargain in good faith with the patrolmen." That sentence should have read: "If the charge is true, it would not be the first time the University has refused to bargain in good faith with the patrolmen...
That was 50 years ago. Since then the true story has been told only in fragmentary fashion, as the facts filtered through decades of unrelenting Soviet denial. Fittingly, another poet, Robert Conquest, has now come forward to write The Harvest of Sorrow, the first major scholarly book on the horrors that struck Pasternak speechless. The author of five books of poetry, Conquest is no stranger to Stalinist atrocities, as witness his magisterial 1968 study, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. For Harvest he gathered a mass of scattered data, including testimony by survivors and participants, accounts...
...Knowledge is key to liberation," said Isaac, dressed in a white djellaba, traditional Ethiopian garb. "The denial of Black peoples as humans is at the root of apartheid." The Ethopian-born professor stressed the need for intellectual equality of opportunity in the United States and South Africa through the study of African heritage...