Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language courses where lectures are devoted to special presentations and discussions peripheral to the course matter, a single text may be the sole source of information on a subject. In the less exacting social science and humanities courses, a book selling a certain point of view may color and distort a student's perspective in a field to which he plans to devote his entire life. Despite all the sneers, chuckles and snide remarks from students who discover their professor's books on the list, the books penned by course teachers--whether required or supplemental--always leave empty shelves...
...tactics used by the union, however, are not the main issue here. Unions often tend to distort or color the truth in their organizing drives; in the case of the employees organizing under District 65, operating as they are without Harvard's superior resources, propagandizing often becomes a necessary, if non-ideal, fact of life...
...fundamentally different District 65 organizing drives at Harvard; nor does the letter even tacitly acknowledge the fact that the workers themselves originally invited District 65 to the Harvard campus and are themselves fully in control of the unionizing drive. To say that "District 65" drafted the newsletters is to distort patently the actual situation...
...stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide... As we could not allow the Whites to be present at a deliberation nor show them a drama that does not concern them, and as, in order to cover up, we have had to fabricate the only one that does concern them... We are what they want...
Gerry concedes that match races do arouse the interest of the non-racing public, but feels they distort a horse's earnings. "A quarter of Foolish Pleasure's career earnings are from the one race with Ruffian," he mentions...