Word: whitewashing
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...enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin in some areas o>f Part 2 -in which Ivan's purge of the boyars presents an obvious parallel to Stalin's purge of the party-that the spectator can only wonder how the director managed to escape with...
...embassy in Rio for dragging its feet. "All we got from the embassy was a run-around and daily lectures on Latin American relations. We were told that our policy was not to rush the Brazilians, not to raise any anti-American feelings." In a, word, Chaloupe's whitewash had made even the U.S. embassy wonder whether urging Brazil to send Birrell home was diplomatically advisable...
Considering the infuriating self-consciousness which is apparently indispensable to the manufacture of yearbooks, the editors of 323 have produced a strangely wishy-washy whitewash in their year-book's pages. This cultivated objectivity is laudable in an Associated Press dispatch, but it is not all which might be hoped of such perceptive reporters...
Soviet propaganda has tried with some success over the years to tar the U.S. as a villain for carrying out nuclear tests and to whitewash the Soviet Union as a do-gooder for demanding a nuclear test ban. In a speech last week, Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby demolished the Soviet we're-on-the-side-of-the-angels pose. He pointed out that in October-six months after the Soviets had won the plaudits of the world's neutralists for piously suspending nuclear tests, and just after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests...
...crumbling emotions tilting crazily against a dusky sky. But there had been changes. In Period of Adjustment, which opened last week at Miami's Coconut Grove Playhouse, Playwright Tennessee Williams repaired no cracking masonry in his familiar dramatic neighborhood, but at least he slapped on a coat of whitewash...