Word: denials
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...directly affected will quickly return to holding conversations, eating meals, getting out of bed, and resuming work. Even though they?re the majority, those who are capable of this have their own sort of guilt, confused by their own resilience. Too often we outsiders presume these people are in denial of their grief, or that they?re ?acting healed? too soon. For those who respond this way, normalcy is not healing itself - it?s merely a conduit to healing. Their sadness should not be measured by their ability to function. We may wish we could make a grand gesture...
...that is completely disengaged from reality? Who would have thought. Although some, including the venerable Economist, argue that this crisis reflects a specifically Hungarian problem, the magazine’s own words seem applicable to almost the entirety of modern liberal democracy as it describes “collective denial, inside and outside the country, about the need for reform.” The magazine additionally notes that vitally, and obviously, necessary austerity measures were postponed time and time again because of politicians’ fears that they would turn out to be unpopular with the voting public...
...opinion column, “Diversity and Denial,” was misleading in its statement that a white student was the first person in an undergraduate course on African American humor to use the epithet “nigger” in reference to a slave. While the student was in fact the first person to directly refer to the slave as a “nigger,” the course professor had told a joke in which the slave referred to himself in that manner...
...providing a quality education and increasing financial aid based on need for all students.IT'S ALSO FASCINATING to read Gutmann's salvo in light of today's Crimson scoop on her travels to Cambridge this weekend. Surprised by reporters outside her hotel, Gutmann sort-of repeated her sort-of denial of any interest in the Harvard presidency, but her mere presence in the vicinity of the Yard is likely to dominate talk among Ivy watchers this week. Will the DP get on her case tomorrow? Their opinion blog is already...
...what a shame it is that the two countries can't band together and lord it over the Arabs. That's when I realized there are two types of Holocaust skeptics in Iran. There's the Ahmadinejad type, and then there's the ordinary Iranian, who lives in denial about everything, not just one of the great tragedies of the twentieth century. Let me explain...