Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where the lie and falsehood theft and malevolence, selfishness, represent vain glory...
...years should be well aware by now. In response to your last publication of a similar canard, I set the record straight at some length in your May 25th issue of last year. And there were several other correcting letters before that. Now your continued infatuation with this falsehood forces me to repeat once again what I have said before...
Over the years, one has gotten quite accustomed--and, indeed, almost inured--to falsehoods in the Crimson. While you obviously do not care about your reputation for veracity, I think you might still value whatever reputation you may have left for originality. Isn't it about time that you gave up perpetuating this tired old falsehood about me, and thought up a new one? I'm surely getting tired of rewriting this letter. Samuel P. Huntington
...Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson wrote of "grotesques," people who took a single truth to themselves, called it theirs and tried to live by it. "It was the truths that made the people grotesques," Anderson said. Once embraced so singlemindedly, any truth "became a falsehood...
...that Cambodia made any sense from a military point of view. In fact, each of the major reasons which the Administration cited as provoking the invasion was a greater falsehood than the next. Nixon claimed in his speech that South Vietnam was threatened by the sudden appearance of the North Vietnamese on its Cambodian flank; yet subsequent reports have shown that the North Vietnamese had in fact been drifting westward and waiting cautiously to see what action the rightist military junta of Lon Nol-who had overthrown neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk the month before-would take against them...