Word: misrepresentation
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It’s a sad state of affairs. Black people only feature in the American political game as equipment on the path to victory. Republicans still hail Bush the Elder as the ultimate chess-master for his brilliant appointment of Clarence Thomas. In each election, blacks are invited to...
In a more recent statement, published in The New York Times on Nov. 28, Paulin ostensibly offers an apology for remarks that the poet himself recognizes are “deeply offensive to all right-thinking people.” I wish that were the end of the matter. His...
The admissions game is another area where people often vastly overestimate the disparity between the two schools. In their Pharisaic attempts to misrepresent reality, some might point to the fact that Harvard has drawn in the range of 370 to 380 National Merit Scholars each year, while Yale generally attracts...
Thus the effect, if not the intent, of the Crimson article is to misrepresent the Harvard Islamic Society by associating it with something as reprehensible as anti-Semitism. To unfairly characterize the intentions and activities of any Harvard student group is both divisive and hurtful. Certainly, the suggestion that any...
In 1891, painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was commissioned to do a print advertising the opening of the Moulin Rouge, a much-hyped new nightclub in the bohemian Montmartre quarter of Paris. The print, known today simply as “Moulin Rouge,” was so popular that...