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...liquids incontinently, as though painting were no more demanding than knocking over a cup of coffee or taking a pee. But when you look at these pictures, it isn't so. Pollock was a consummate aesthete. (The fact that he could also be a mean, drunken galoot doesn't gainsay that...
...That's up to physicians, and nobody can gainsay what doctors say. It all boils down to the integrity of the doctors. This is what people are afraid of. They don't really trust their doctors, and I can see why. They have made a mess of their profession...
Unlike these parents, Hart did not get the point of the flier. While trying to gainsay the allegation that there exists a PC conspiracy here (one, in fact, we never made, because conspiracy connotes a collusion which we have not witnessed yet), Hart maintains that the flier itself is a child of the complicity of Harvard conservatives. The flier belongs to Sumner and me alone, something the handout states at its bottom. But, as her article demonstrates, classification and consequent dismissal is easier than refutation...
...action would promptly be "escorted back to a rear unit and, as soon as possible, back to Dhahran." Many Americans would like to believe that the Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield but in the headlines. The Pentagon denies it shares that view, but its actions gainsay its words...
...Administration debate ways to assist the fledgling free nations that were once part of the Soviet orbit, the implicit assumption is that the U.S., with its sophisticated political systems, can again serve as the arsenal of democracy. From the Philippines in 1986 to Nicaragua last month, no one can gainsay the worth of impartial poll watchers and international inspection teams. But there is also a missionary strain in the American psyche that can inadvertently trample on foreign customs and cultures under the guise of strengthening democratic institutions. As the Hungarian experience suggests, democracy may be the U.S.'s greatest export...