Word: dishonestly
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...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...
Worn to perfection, the ads for this shrewd, agreeable, ultimately dishonest movie proclaim. But they lie. At 70, the actor doesn't look worn at all; he's trim and bouncy, the blue eyes undimmed by the passing years, the gray in his hair seeming, if anything, premature. He's playing a man of 60, and it is not a reach for him. It is, however, a problem for writer-director Robert Benton's movie. Benton can't help it, and Newman can't help it, but the actor is wrong for the part of Donald ("Sully") Sullivan...
Unfortunately, that is not how Gore explained the letters. Instead, he reflexively brushed them off as kid's stuff, and that, it seems to me, is dishonest. First, a 20 year-old is not a kid. 20 year-olds vote--they helped Clinton and Gore get elected. Moreover, 20 year-olds were going to Vietnam and dying when Gore was writing home to father. And judging from the language Gore used, these were strongly-held sentiments, not idle ruminations...
...much to candidates as was permitted by law. Says Gingrich: "We legally obey every regulation. I understand my critics are fixated and pathologically disoriented, but they're my opponents. Why would I try to correct that?" As for the substance of the complaint, he adds, "It's crazy, dishonorable, dishonest, and I think he knows that...
When, where and why it is permissible to be dishonest was the subject of a lecture given yesterday by Alan Ryan at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...