Word: distortive
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...about that!" Ellen Maytag interrupted David. "Some people also think about how to keep the peace. If only they would tell us how to do it. They teach us things we already know... We can't trust our reporters, can't believe our radio and TV programs. They all distort the truth. Our professors are immortalizing falsehood. For 4 years the university administration stuffs us with lies. This is not only in Stanford...
...Castro. Most of the characters in his own cartoons, according to Feiffer, are not people he has really seen, but rather stereotypes "filtered through our general mass culture." "In order to point out the things you want to point out," he explained, you have to take an image and "distort it slightly" by running it through "a cockeyed mirror...
Happiness. Says famed Teacher Mark Van Doren of Columbia University: "The college teacher is devoted to the search for truth, and as such he is the envy of all those in our society who are paid to obscure or distort it. He is the only one who is paid to be as honest, as simple, and as serious as he can . . . The work is indeed hard, as it must be since its purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing...
Pitchfork & Ax. A well-read frontier buff, Gruber admits that "in television scripts we distort things. Like in Wells Fargo we have Dale Robertson inventing the swivel holster when it was really invented by John Wesley Hardin. Or we have Belle Starr as a beautiful woman, when she really was a terrible looking...
...time Pollster George Gallup was one of the few people in the U.S. to believe Adlai Stevenson's statements that he would not run again for President, consequently kept Stevenson's name off the Gallup poll of 1960 Democratic presidential possibilities. It would, the pollsters said, only distort the count for the real candidates. But Gallup heard so much Stevenson talk that he put him back on, last week put out a report that showed Stevenson at the head of the pack with 23%. The contenders, and their changes in standing since last November...