Word: falsehood
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...York Times Co. v. Sullivan four years ago, the Supreme Court laid down tough constitutional limitations on libel recoveries by public officials. "A defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct," ruled the court, must be "made with 'actual malice'-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." So much for public officials. But what of persons very much in the public eye, though not public officials? They too play an important part in shaping the course and creeds of the country. Should not the press be permitted...
...certain tone of the Red Guard to it, they ordered the Greek radio to play martial music and give forth tirelessly with such slogans as "Let us take our heroic ancestors for an example" and "Let the flowers of regeneration bloom over the debris of the regime of falsehood...
...Ibsen, The Wild Duck was something of a dramatic non-sequitur. In it he consciously defied the vital premise of much of his earlier (and later) work; that truth must inevitably conquer falsehood. Ekdal, the central character, has lost both fortune and prestige in a grisly episode involving his father's illegal use of government lumber. The father, a broken man, is surviving on the charity of his guilty old friend Werle, who was also involved in the scandal but was acquitted for lack of evidence. In the last 15 years, both Ekdal and his father have built...
...after the convention to paraphrase his famous acceptance speech. The original read: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Romney's version read: "Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty...
Evangelical thinkers take an enlightened view of scriptural inerrancy. They concede the need for textual criticism, admit that many passages must be interpreted symbolically rather than literally. But they also argue that the Bible as a whole is of divine authority and cannot teach falsehood. Belief in its infallibility, therefore, is an essential of consistent Christianity, a test of all orthodoxy-and, above all, a commandment of the Lord...