Word: denialism
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Tenant advocates yesterday called Judge Walter Skinner's denial of a request for an injunction a major victory, and attorneys for local landowners said no decision has been reached yet on an appeal of the denial...
...late1960s, and through most of the 1970s, some fundamental and widely shared cultural views changed in the U.S. With the economy booming, many Americans were liberated from old anxieties about material success. The belief that hard work, self-denial and moral rectitude were their own rewards gave way to a notion, held fervently and misguidedly by some, that the "self and the realization of its full "potential" were all-important pursuits. This phenomenon was ridiculed as the "me" decade by Writer Tom Wolfe and the "culture of narcissism" by Social Critic Christopher Lasch...
Yankelovich argues that a new "ethic of commitment" is dawning, in which self-denial and self-fulfillment will be synthesized into a "search for community." Unfortunately, the evidence supporting this rosy vision is fairly flimsy. Even he seems unconvinced: he anticipates an era of conflict as people try to hold on to both their new freedoms and their high standard of living...
...veterans returned in the elation of their sheer survival. But then, weirdly, they vanished into America's oblivion. This spring and summer some of them have been trying to rise out of that denial and make themselves visible. Some have staged protests
...what their citizenship meant; men no longer knew what their manhood demanded. The war cost more than Americans could immediately pay. It put the nation into a kind of mourning; perhaps Americans will not be rid of the experience until they have passed through the customary stages of grief: denial, anger, depression and, ultimately, acceptance...