Word: believingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A welcome change is provided in a new book by Thomas Griffith, How True: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News.* With witty epigrams and cogent commentary, Griffith avoids knee-jerk assaults on both the press and its critics. Rather he wants his readers to understand what journalism...
I RETURNED late the next afternoon to Kenny's trailer. I knocked on the door and waited. I was about to leave when I heard Patty tell me to come in. I sat in the living room and watched the local news as Patty said Kenny would be out in...
His drunk was a homage of mourning to his friend Hughie, the hotel's night clerk, who has just died. Hughie had per formed the almost ecclesiastical function of believing in Erie's shabby bravado, his tales of bedding girls from the Follies and beating the cards and...
(11 of 11) hours, pencil in teeth, thumbing through sheaves of coffee-stained bills spread over a kitchen table, one concludes that he could be a victim of some inept tax advisory preparers." The St. Louis Globe Democrat thought that "it is entirely reasonable to assume that the IRS would...
Greater Glory. The greatest obstacles to Scottish independence in the past have come from the Scots' own jaundiced view of themselves, as plain and prickly as the thistle, the Scots' emblem. For centuries they have resented their position as a nation of 5 million people with its own...