Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite successful budget trimming and faculty hiring, Rosovsky himself continues to downplay his role in the past year. "I accepted and tried to operate this intricate machine," says Rosovsky. "But I didn't try to redesign the machine...
...other hand, those who downplay the problem should come to realize that date rape is a crime of uniquely intimate cruelty. While the body is violated, the spirit is maimed. How long will it take, once the wounds have healed, before it is possible to share a walk on a beach, a drive home from work or an evening's conversation without always listening for a quiet alarm to start ringing deep in the back of the memory of a terrible crime...
...chief risk in any ideologically based curriculum is that it can promote tribalism and downplay the value of discovering common cultural ground. The very idea of the melting pot, of assimilation, indeed of a common American identity, is under fire in some academic circles. Warns Diane Ravitch, adjunct professor of history and education at Columbia: "If we teach kids to connect themselves to one group defined by race or language or religion, then we have no basis for public education. We need to retain a sense of the common venture...
While the "'Grand Jatte' Series" also shows many images of people in the context of modern, industrial structures, most of these pictures downplay the importance of the surrounding elements. Instead, many explore the distorting effect that Royal's hyper-focus has upon the sense of space. In many of these images, the dimensions of the space are unclear because the background which we would normally expect to see blurred is as detailed and precise as the foreground...
...important factors helped make the Pentagon's public relations campaign a success. First, the story was nearly all positive for the allies: courting favorable press coverage is much easier when there is little bad news to downplay or counter. Second, the war was short. Managing the news would surely have grown tougher if the ground war had dragged...