Word: revisionists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson knows that "Clarke wasn't here for the (CUNY Professor Leonard) Jeffries lecture" in the spring of 1992, and perhaps the staff hopes that by praising the BSA's "Very important role...in the Harvard community" its revisionist attempt to recast itself as the protecting friend of the BSA will go unnoticed and unchallenged by those who were absent during its major conflict with the Black community...
...More face time with politicians -- that's what voters really want! Once you get going in this gently revisionist vein, as the Administration no doubt hopes you will, it becomes clear that there are many previously undiscerned reasons why this election was, in fact, a Democratic boon...
...spirit of the, er, text struck some Americans who had the advantage of having been there at the time as a revisionist travesty. The curators seemed to be confused about who started the war and who pursued it (in China, the Philippines and elsewhere) with relentless inhumanity. To turn the Japanese into the victims of World War II, and the Americans into the villains, seemed an act of something worse than ignorance; it had the ring of a perverse generational upsidedownspeak and Oedipal lese majeste worthy of a fraud like Oliver Stone...
...irritation of Corrina's family with her ultimate choice to be involved with Manny, and his nosy neighbor makes it clear that she does not approve. But I could not help but think that while cross-racial relationships must have occurred then, this film is a bit of revisionist history. Or perhaps it's merely the hopes and wishes of a little girl who loves her maid and father and misses having a mother...
...buried in glory, there may be no dead reputation America's political culture cannot bring back to life. Spin doctors perform miracles far beyond the capacity of their medical counterparts. Others besides Quayle have asserted in the past two years that "Dan Quayle was right" all along. Perhaps the revisionist trickle will turn into an unstoppable flood. But let us at least keep a finger in the dike...