Search Details

Word: deceits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...profound concern of the American people at the existence of an international conspiracy whose goal is the destruction of our cherished institutions . . . Three of its principles in particular are abhorrent to us: the fomenting of worldwide revolution as a step to seizing power; the use of falsehood and deceit as normal means of persuasion; thought control-the dictation of doctrines which must be accepted and taught by all party members. Under these principles, no scholar could adequately disseminate knowledge or pursue investigations in the effort to make further progress toward truth . . . No person who accepts or advocates such principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: COMMUNISM and the COLLEGES | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Prison Chaplain. Dibelius has his philosophic reservations, too, about the West. "It is a self-deceit," he has written, "if one thinks of the totalitarian states of the East as intrinsically different from the democracies of the West." To Dibelius' mind, the democracies are at root the same "power states" as the dictatorships, because, he thinks, they do not base their authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop in the Front Line | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...opposed by several H. Brarians, and by representatives of book-cellers and publisher. The legislative counsel for Time, Esquire, and Cowles Magazine, James D. St. Claire, said, "If we have to satisfy a board of three we will be unduly hamstrung in what we publish and we publish deceit things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Committee Kills Bill Asking Rigid Censorship | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

Because members of the Communist Party are "committed to the use of deceit and deception as a matter of policy," they should not be allowed to teach, John S. Dickey, President of Dartmouth College, stated last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dickey Reaffirms Position Banning Red Instructors | 3/5/1953 | See Source »

...such old bellringers as Frank Slaughter, F. Van Wyck Mason, James Street and Rosamond Marshall (see below). And in March, famed Violinist Albert Spalding will fiddle his way into the act with, his publishers announce, "an absorbing and richly patterned evocation of a gaudy era of passion and plot, deceit and beauty." Author Spalding's hero: an 18th century Italian violinist who loved dangerously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Boom in Busts | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | Next