Word: distortive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, even McCurdy admitted that time and third-hand sources tend to distort reality...
...same way, but with smaller-than life, stylized projections of the dancers--non-skeletons, Klee-like stick figures. The dancers improvise as a group with the sounds of arguing-laughing and laughing-crying. They're cut short again and again as striking visual patterns of light and color distort their figures beyond recognition. They become once more mere props in a theatrical fantasy...
...this sense shows through as long as the poem lasts. A structure may emerge that is based on poetic techniques such as assonance, consonance, and half-rhyme; usually, however, the poem depends on caesura or the line of a story for cohesion. But Sagan also has a tendency to distort or forsake style for an image. Her poetry is most interesting when she is sparing of the picturesque language she seems so intent on invoking...
...note with growing concern a propensity of some members of the Harvard community to distort the concept of "rights of the minority" in order to charge discrimination where none exists. The most recent example concerns the reaction to Christmas decorations in House dining halls. Hope Reisman writes to The Crimson that she finds "such decorations offensive and discriminatory." I fail to see the applicability of either term. Ms. Reisman need not feel personally insulted or offended that a sizeable portion of the community wishes to celebrate a particular holiday while she does not. Nor should she feel that...
...rape is "the conscious process by which all men keep all women in a state of fear." But she persuasively argues that all forms of oppression have their origin in the often brutal reality of unequal physical power and that this primal fact of life continues to define and distort relationships between the sexes...