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Political lying and subsequent public distrust are disastrous for our society and are creating a vicious circle of alienation and deceit among government officials and the public, Sissela Bok, Lecturer on Medical Ethics, told an audience of 350 yesterday at the Kennedy School Forum...
...time and geography, Cope, Idaho, is about as far as you can get from Lincolnian Washington or Edwardian Ireland. But The Noble Enemy (Doubleday; 384 pages; $12.50), set in that no-horse town, is also about death, deceit, love and survival. Charles Fox's novel adds a haunting, imaginative denouement to a news story from the Rockies in the 1960s...
...awkward to walk across. The detritus of the fall season -a ruptured garden hose, a squashed tennis-ball can, a broken-off ax handle thrown away in a fury-surrounds the house as such junk always does in New England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods beyond, has accomplished the ultimate deceit by not falling out of the sky. The car rumbles by on the dirt road in front...
...Naipaul cannot compete with his brother's polish or his sensitivity. Both are missing from North of South. The book is a montage of conversations held or overheard by the author during a six-month visit to Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania. For Shiva Africa is a land of hypocrisy, deceit and irony. Some of his examples are apt: an African student loves books but hates to read; young boys selling peanuts are condemned as capitalists in Tanzania; religious Hindus devour beef sandwiches; a white tourist asks her companion, "In Burundi do the tall ones kill the short ones...
...Black Panther, the party's newspaper, reported last week that Trivers will write a book with Newton called "Deceit and Self-Deception," as well as articles for the Black Panther on the discriminatory use of I.Q. tests and other topics in sociobiology...