Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mankind, the result is a volume of grotesque moral confusion. The very intent of the book--to bring the Holocaust to seven-year-olds without being depressing--is absurd, and so Celebrations becomes the reductio ad absurdum of this genre of young people's realism: at once confused, dishonest, disturbing and false...
...example of harassment, but conveniently stops after the reference to several declined and reiterated dinner invitations from a teacher. Then Lat purposefully omits the crucial part of the example: "and I'm concerned it could jeopardize my course evaluation" and replaces it with an ellipsis. This is a transparently dishonest manipulation of the text in order to make his (questionable) point, as anyone who reads the brochure will understand immediately...
Ponomaryov, the fired prosecutor, says those who use the killing to demonstrate that crime is out of hand are aiming for a political payoff. "Some dishonest leaders use it to their advantage," he says, "claiming the reforms are going nowhere because of crime." He argues that compared with the rest of the world, "the situation in Russia has not reached levels that warrant extraordinary measures...
This is your life and you should do what you want to do with it. I guess you could audit a bunch of Bio classes and take her to them when she arrives, pretending like you have a clue. However, that's pretty dishonest, not to mention a waste of time, Tell her. If your mother loves you, she will understand. if she doesn't, explain to her all the useful things you can do with Folk and Myth (like academia or running Columbia Pictures like Folk and Myth grad Lisa Henson) and how you just weren...
...idea that the men who stormed Iwo Jima and withstood the Kamikazes are creatures too tender to tolerate analysis of the war they fought is more than patronizing. It is intellectually dishonest. The vets would have welcomed analysis of the Pacific war that was minimally accurate, that gave due attention to Japanese depredations and American sacrifice, that was not corrupted by such revisionist nonsense as the suggestion that we might not have dropped the bomb on Nazi Germany because Germans are white. The issue is not that veterans cannot stand analysis but that the analysis offered by the Smithsonian...