Word: veneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what you're doing here is a part of the confrontation process, because Harvard is one of the outstanding representatives of the liberal establishment. They have a very nice, clean-cut liberal veneer. The President of Harvard never called anyone a nigger. But the same Harvard President would participate in the exploitation of the resources of the people of Angola, which is just as bad as a racial epithet. And you have got to make that clear...
...Media Men caught it all--live TV in color via satellite. What they failed to show behind the spray paint veneer was the burial of the old containment policy ideology...
...Screens, however, lacks the caste v. outcast tensions of The Blacks and the musky eroticism of The Balcony. In a Genetic mutation of Bertolt Brecht, the playwright doubly fails. He tries to apply the epical veneer of The Caucasian Chalk Circle to the theme of little people whipped about in a historical convulsion, in this case France's punitive struggle with Algeria. Brecht succeeded because he had a certain sympathy for the last-ditch valor of his little people even when he portrayed them as cagey sneaks. Genet fails because he regards all people as maggots...
...moment we accept the premise of narcissism, if we relax our distaste for her egocentrism, and make the effort to enjoy her as she ostensibly seems to enjoy herself, we find quickly that the veneer of joy and self-love is thin. It seems that she maintains the external, self-promoting eye in order to convince herself that she is loveable. With her diary, Anais Nin is incessantly licking the wounds of her self-hate...
...copy of the Massachusetts law and a description of fair net operating income," he points out. "There is no information given about appeal rights, and unless you have a specific question rent control will not be explained to you. Most people see rent control through a legalistic veneer; even though they got screwed on a rent increase, they accept it because it seems to be part...