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...according to his own judgment. Those who ask for a lie-detector test in order to prove they are speaking the truth must find other means of convincing inquirers. Otherwise, the point will come when anyone who refuses a lie-detector test will automatically feel accused of falsehood. A true reply must be freely spoken-not spoken under the pressure of certainty that untruths will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...exist is a feeling not particular to the CRIMSON alone. Many students would undoubtedly agree. Yet it is disheartening to realize that the CRIMSON will reach such depths in its verbal campaign to bury the Council that it will misinterpret Council meetings and, indeed, print bare falsehood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CLARIFICATION | 11/22/1957 | See Source »

Lastik also met "society women whose husbands earned quite decent salaries, but who increased their income through prostitution." His conclusion: the prevalence of prostitution is not, as Engels maintained, due solely to social misery, but quite as much to socialist "blindness and falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SATELLITES: Oldest Profession | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Last week the Gomulka government established a new first in satellite propaganda: by releasing the long-suppressed antiprostitution film Paragraph Zero, it began a serious campaign to end past blindness and falsehood. But this was only a beginning. Advised Social Analyst Lastik: "We should concern ourselves with the moral state of our public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SATELLITES: Oldest Profession | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...heroism. You are not heroes on the newsstands for having caused incalculable bloodshed, but heroes in truth because you have, in modest obscurity, renounced a hero's dream, clothed in the attractive gay mantle of glory. You are heroes in truth, and despite all distortions, hypocrisies, illusions and falsehood, truth is still true in this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal & the Commissar | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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