Word: glossing
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...stereotype should be off limits," says Hudlin. "Why must Blacks be so afraid of presenting images of themselves which are less than perfect?" He bemoans what he considers the tendency of some Blacks to gloss over the history of Black oppression in this country...
...security about the corporation and its future." He explains that lacocca "shows signs of Oriental wisdom." Perhaps Mitsubishi's boss has noticed that in rebuilding Chrysler, lacocca has turned from American role models and is looking to the Japanese. While he has tried to appropriate the expensive, high-gloss image of European automobiles for his more modest creations, lacocca has borrowed heavily | from the successful management...
...Constituency: The two economists commit a left-wing version of the Japan-worship error in citing Swedish socialism as a model of "humane" industrial policy. American workers would probably resist Japan-style regimentation; but they have some pretty strong anti-collectivist traditions as well. Bluestone and Harrison simply gloss over this obstacle to an American movement for worker's control. And in a near-depression, workers are bound to look askance at any thing that sounds more risky than a job offer...
...comment or two about Khruschev's untrustworthiness or duplicity. But when it comes to the leaders he really would like to emulate, he is systematically silent about their personal incorruptability. For it was moral worth that Nixon himself could never attain. And that's something he can't gloss over...
...question that stands before the whole nation is the question of Israel facing itself, Israel facing its history, Israel with the truth of its experience. And anyone who tries to gloss over this truth because of a suspicion, 'What will the non-Jews say?' is sinning against Israel, is sinning against the sense by which Israel was founded. Those who try to hush the voices will not help ... What have you wrought, Mr. Prime Minister and Mr. Defense Minister...