Word: denialism
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...release of the report, and other administrators attempted to allay fears that the document might adversely affect Harvard's admissions policies, more than 200 incensed students rallied in the Yard and marched through University Hall in late October, demanding an increased commitment to affirmative action and an official public denial of the Klitgaard report...
...guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it's up to Harvard, and for once the University must respond with actions and not words. Skocpol and more like her deserve places on the Faculty, both because they are great scholars and teachers and because any faculty without minorities or women is handicapped...
...work or glaring out at the rest of the nation from a daze of rage and drugs and night sweats, they reminded America that the war had cost and that it had hurt. For years, at least some part of every Viet Nam veteran has inhabited a limbo of denial-the nation's or his own-often overcome by guilt and shame, and almost always by anger. Among other things, he has tended to think of himself as an awful sucker to have risked so much for so little. Most veterans (contrary to stereotype) have readjusted reasonably well...
...denial has been peeling away slowly for several years. An odd breakthrough occurred last January after the extravagantly emotional, almost giddy welcome home that America staged for the 52 hostages from Iran. The nation was an orgy of yellow ribbons and misting eyes. But then, a few days later, a countertheme surfaced. Viet Nam veterans watched the spectacle of welcome (the routes of motorcades lined with cheering, weeping Americans, the nation glued to its TV sets, the new President doing the hostages proud in the Rose Garden) and their years of bitterness boiled up to a choked cry: WHERE...
Often it is not the act itself but the denial, the coverup, that wrecks a reputation. A suspicion will always linger that if Nixon and his men had not tried to cover up, his presidency would have survived; if only he had got up and confessed some thing. If only he had made what the Catholic Church calls a sincere act of contrition. It was not so much John Profumo's recreation with Christine Keeler that finished him as Britain's State Secretary for War. It was the way he lied about...