Word: denials
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...doesn’t say will be more important than what he does. This afternoon, Harvard will witness a textbook example of the all too common rhetorical obfuscations that have allowed the 20th century to become one of the most bloody known to man: the twin policies of denial and appeasement...
...Supreme Judicial Court, ruling this fall that the Commonwealth’s constitution bars the state from refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, hit the nail on the head: banning homosexuals from marrying within their gender creates an artificial, inherently unfair second class of citizens. Massachusetts’ denial of marriage licenses to gays and lesbians was hardly the first time that those in charge of the American government did their best to deny its promise of freedom to all. Centuries of women, ethnic and religious minorities and immigrants, for example, have all seen the zealousness with which...
...fretfully asked, probably more to himself more than to us. I was so struck that this accomplished academic, Phi Beta Kappa and soon-to-be graduate could be unhappy with his accomplishments. That his highly desirable i-banking job and six figure salary in one hand came with a denial of his true passions and grief in the other shook me as one un-pretty truth of Harvard’s curricular and occupational system...
...sexual culture is trying to sell you out for,” he wrote. “No matter how you cut it, crop it, light it, or shade it, whether you publish it, print it, or just pick it up and read it, exploitation is still a denial of anyone’s, and everyone’s, dignity...
...tends to obscure his perception of facts on the ground; he can be slow to learn from his mistakes; and if he knows where he is going, he rarely explains how he plans to get there. There is an active debate in Republican circles about whether Bush is in denial about the challenges in Iraq--or simply unsure about how to proceed...