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...various times since the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Castile has tried to take Catalunya over and suppress its speech. Francisco Franco banned all publishing and teaching in Catalan, hoping to prevent his subjects from thinking separatist thoughts. But obdurately, Catalan survives, and now that separatist dreams have faded -- Jordi Pujol, the president of the autonomous region of Catalunya, dropped the separatist plank from his party's platform last October -- it is the language that remains the focus of Catalunya's enthusiasm for cultural distinction...
...thought police was preventing academic debate about the Holocaust's non-existence, how the photos, documents and eyewitness accounts proving the obvious in fact prove nothing, how "Zionists and others in the Jewish community" whose "political and financial support for Jewish causes" had led "a conspiracy to suppress the truth." We chose not to run the ad and returned the money...
Only those tutors willing to suppress their objections to house policy or whitewash what they see as house problems are part of the Liems' "community." Like petty dictators from, say, former Eastern European regimes, the Liems want a "community" without dissent from their employees. This is, in our view, the worst sort to community one could foster...
...photographic age a century ago, people less drenched in images and less blase about them than we. "So real is it," wrote a Cincinnati journalist in 1886 about a Harnett called The Old Violin, that a special guard "has been detailed to stand beside the picture and suppress any attempts to take down the fiddle and the bow." To some, Harnett suggested a classical parallel. He was the American Zeuxis, the Greek painter (none of whose works survive) who was said to be so good at trompe l'oeil that birds flew down to peck the grapes...
...That is totally unfounded. I wanted people tosee it," Shinagel said. Shinagel said that if hewanted to suppress news of the lawsuit, he wouldnot have distributed the memo about it toExtension School staff members...