Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...History Distorted. O'Brien, of course, is much too sly to pretend that he is recording straight history, even though he was a U.N. official in Katanga province in 1961 during its secessionist struggle with the Republic of the Congo. In one of the most disingenuous prefaces ever tacked onto a play, O'Brien announces: "My Hammarskjold and my Lumumba are not to be thought of as the 'real' characters of that name, but as personages shaped by the imitation of a real action associated with their names." What O'Brien is proclaiming here...
...precious, god-al-mighty interests were being endangered. We need more schools like Ohio State. whose athletes and athletic program are a credit to the American collegiate tradition. What we don't need is young men like you. who use a newspaper to spout off radical beliefs and distort the facts...
Consideration was also given to a type of psychopathology-borderline personalities-whose sufferers occupy a borderline somewhere between neuroses and psychoses. "Their faculties for observation and memory are poor," Grinspoon said, "and as a result they are prone to distort reality...