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...long history of Soviet, British and then American meddling in their affairs, Iranians were and are basically xenophobic, and thus susceptible to the Ayatullah's charges that the U.S. (and, of course, the CIA) was responsible for the country's ills. Iranians could also easily accept that kind of falsehood since they had grown used to living off gossip and rumor mills during the reign of the Shah, when the heavily censored press played down even nonpolitical bad news about Iran. When Khomeini declared that the Americans and Israelis were responsible for the November attack by Muslim fanatics on Mecca...
...opening. And I feel a genuine message which has come from life, and not from the scriptures only--it is from experience. There is a lot of misunderstanding and falsehood in the guru business. A lot of sickening things are happening. In that confused atmosphere, we need some fresh things. The West has gone to an extreme in technology and science, and the young people are a little bit bored of this and tired of the wars and killing. And they started thinking: what is the result of our achievement? So they now go to the other extreme: Indian philosophy...
...Misanthrope. This is quite possibly Moliere's sharpest social commentary, although it bombed in 1666. Alceste is the misanthrope, a man obsessed with sincerity and full of hatred for polite society, which he considers founded on flattery, mendacity and falsehood. Alceste's love for a flitty coquette becomes his last link to mankind. Inevitably, he discovers her insincerity too, reinforcing his misanthropic idealism and leaving him unloved and unloving...
...major themes wrong. Emmerich perpetrated an enormous falsehood about one of the central points of the lecture, in quoting DeVore's summary of early findings about primate social structure involving male-dominated dominance hierarchies, male leadership, and male genetic continuity. He failed to report that a few minutes later, DeVore emphasized that every one of these seemingly sexist findings has been found to be completely untrue or true only when extremely qualified. DeVore noted in the balance of his talk--repeatedly--that societies that he and others have studied have a continuity based on female descent and kinship, that males...
...laugh at the irony of your headline "The Joy of Art." The American public already has an image of the artist as an easygoing image maker working a few hours a week in between parties, and I doubt that your story will help to dispel the falsehood...