Word: treating
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Leone, who is also a professor of literature at Colgate, said he tries to treat each dive individually rather than compare it to a standard of perfection...
Testifying for the prosecution, Urciuoli atfirst refused to say he'd seen anything out of asecond-floor Pound Hall window on the night ofJune 10. At one point, a clearly frustrated MarcA. Eichler, the assistant district attorney, askedthe judge's permission to treat his own starwitness as hostile...
...which I slightly regret. But one of the things I said was that art about AIDS should avoid humor. I felt that some of the writing about AIDS was trying to get into a Borscht-Belt comedy act, that there was a way it was being domesticated and treated as though it were one more phenomenon in the ghastly-but-we'll-somehow-survive-it New York cityscape. I felt that [AIDS] is a scandal and should remain a permanent scandal, and that everything should treat its oddness and unacceptability. There's a certain kind of humor that is used...
...believe they are advancing religious toleration, believers often feel that the practical result is intolerance toward religion as a whole. That view is expressed vigorously by Stephen Carter of the Yale Law School in his book The Culture of Disbelief. Carter claims that the leaders of American culture increasingly treat religious faith as a somewhat embarrassing or purely private affair that should be allowed to have no impact on society -- unlike all other modes of thinking. The newly arriving faiths can be expected to resist that sort of limitation as they reinvigorate America's spiritual marketplace...
...demanded validation of America's cultural maturity. Today it demands diversity. The 1991 Heath anthology of American literature, widely used in colleges, begins with Indian chants and Spanish voyager poems, rather than Pilgrim ruminations. Next year's update adds more "Native American oral narratives." The Heath editors treat literature as of mainly anthropological value. The volume abounds in work by Asians, Hispanics and especially blacks and women -- there is more by Charlotte Perkins Gilman than by Hemingway -- and conspicuously stints Wasps and Jews...