Word: whitewashed
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...Germany--where those personally innocent during the Nazi period all admitted to their "collective guilt" while the real criminals showed no remorse as "the quintessence of moral confusion." The concept of collective guilt, as opposed to individual guilt, is "senseless," Miss Arendt said, and only serves as an effective "whitewash" for guilty individuals to hide behind...
City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci yesterday, described as "a big whitewash", a one page police report on "alleged improprieties" in Harvard dorms...
...been said that the whole romantic wing of today's abstract painting derives from him. Once he had himself lashed to the mast of a boat for four hours during a severe storm at sea. Critics called the resulting painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think the sea is like," and the modern eye can readily see the inner turmoil and thunder. DEVIS. What stands out in the arr represented in the Mellon Collection is the quality that Historian G. M. Trevelyan called "the fullness of life . . . Perhaps...
...Boston, the city has created a Police Review Board to hear the complaints of residents who charge abuse by police officers. Unfortunately, the Board's procedures in its hearings make it probable that its findings will be at best inadequate and at worst a whitewash. The complainant's counsel is denied the right of cross-examination, and in fact has no rights whatever except to advise his client when he is called to the witness stand. The case is prosecuted by a city attorney, and while justice for a citizen is possible when one government official examines another...
...case might involve the government in the biggest scandal since Burgess and MacLean eloped to Russia in 1951. Last week the most sensational version of the Vassall saga to date was unfolded in the House of Commons by the very man whom the Opposition had accused of trying to whitewash the whole affair: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...