Word: veil
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...where were all my veil-bedecked and sinuous-bellied fellow second graders who so enthusiastically danced along to the tune of “Prince Ali! Fabulous he! Ali Ababwa!”—where were these beacons of hope for the new, tolerant and interdependent century when the CIA needed proficient Arabic speakers after 9/11...
...Instead, he looks hapless before the specter of a nuclear-armed militant clerical regime that looms beneath the veil of a peaceful nuclear energy project. Putin's massive supplies of conventional weapons to Iran, including air defense missiles and armor, have strengthened that specter - much to Russia's own peril...
...group Liberty, thinks a better solution is to enlist moderate Muslims in the war on terrorism through "a universal human-rights framework." That means, she says, "Salman Rushdie should be free to write books they might not like; but also that Muslim women should be free to wear the veil too. When applied evenhandedly, free speech is not the enemy of minorities, it's their protection." So does that mean the answer to the tensions free speech can unleash is more free speech? It's not an argument that would win over those to whom some matters, like lampooning...
...long-dead) Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates. When a dream-come-true trip to follow in his footsteps turns into a savage fight for survival on the ice, it's only the friend in Sym's head who stays true. "Children are just so much better at passing through the veil between the real world and an imaginary one," says McCaughrean, "which can feel just as real and very, very scary." Though she recognizes the brilliance at the heart of Barrie's creation, McCaughrean calls Peter Pan an odd book. "And I most certainly wouldn't have written a sequel...
...memoir: events are filtered through the author's memory, and then they're fuzzed even further by the inherently impressionistic nature of any literary medium. Short of the unexpected appearance of a Recording Angel, there isn't much a memoirist can do to pull aside that two-ply veil. But before we get lost in an epistemological fog, let's not forget that those distortions must be kept separate from the wilful deceptions of an author who's giving in to ulterior motives. Some falsehood comes with the territory of the memoirist; others must be deliberately imported into...