Word: veiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These things may seem obvious, but it is easy to lose sight of the real motivation that drives hardcore classical music listeners when they cloak their enjoyments with a veil of esotericism, exchanging knowing winks and nods at the sales counter when someone asks who the composer of "Don Giovanni...
...walks, to be in nature." Raisa: "He is exaggerating. He is always working. We have no time to be together. I hope all this will come." Gorbachev: "Nature is everything to us. We prefer to go for walks in winter, when there is a snowstorm. Everything disappears in a veil of snow. In these moments, you feel eternity...
...political correctness" tends to efface individual and personal differences, liberal arguments for multiculturalism have too often emphasized rhetorical strategies that do not translate into substantive reconfigurations of power. As Susan Faludi `81 wrote in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, the writer must "[assert] herself from behind the veil of the printed page." Faludi, a former managing editor of The Crimson and author of Backlash, was calling for public speech that actually touches people and that forces us into the public. As writers, as journalists, such a call might also apply to writing; it might demand that we acknowledge...
...Morgan had provided some information about the leadership of the newspaper. From my name, and from the names of other top executives, Jeffries determined that the Crimson was a "Jewish newspaper" that would merely manipulate his comments. In some measure, it was my name, torn from behind my comfortable veil, that had provoked his angry words. It was Jeffries's anti-Semitism, directed towards me, that had brought Morgan to my door...
...protect the children from the stigma of being branded as criminals, the proceedings of juvenile courts are hidden behind a veil of confidentiality. In an effort to show the strains on the system, a group of TIME correspondents was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore court. The identities of the children and their parents have been changed, but the stories are true, and they are typical...