Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simone Veil, a former French Cabinet minister and Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, agreed that the trial was a last chance for people to assess their emotions and teach their children the past...
...most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall intent was to cut off South Africa, its people and its fate from the eyes and concern of the outside world...
Vincent is back. We left him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, crop- eared and dazed in Arles: "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." Two months after writing this, he voluntarily entered the lunatic asylum at Saint-Remy in Provence; and 15 months after that, discharged but still plagued by unassuageable fits of melancholy, he shot himself to death in the rural village of Auvers, just north of Paris. Van Gogh was 37 when he died -- at the same...
Although these issues must be considered by the faculty, I do not wish to hide my views behind a veil of conflicting arguments. Let me close, therefore, by briefly stating my personal conclusions.... As currently advised, I believe that faculty members should not be barred by the University from agreeing to prepublication reviews insuring against disclosure of classified information (unless and until there is evidence that such reviews have resulted in unjustified censorship). But I do feel that members should be required to disclose that fact in any book or article so reviewed and to indicate whether the review resulted...
...stipulated period of time. But new pressures for U.S. companies to further isolate South Africa are hardly out of the question. Says the N.A.M.'s Fox: "It remains to be seen if the U.S. public regards (the current sell-offs) as disengagement or merely a shifting of the corporate veil...