Word: half-truth
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Government: The half-truth of demosclerosis...
...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
...reality behind each half-truth of the negative television advertising blitz reveals false anti-environment propaganda. The opposition claims that the measure would hinder small business and create unwieldy state bureaucracies. But an exemption stipulates that the law will only apply to businesses with over 10 employees and the state's Department of Environmental Protection has acknowledged that the legislation will require only about 10 more employees for enforcement...
BELIEVING that politicians will keep their campaign promises has always required a certain naivete. Only savvy Washington-watchers know how to distinguish the various varieties of campaign promises, how to draw the line between mere half-truth and actual lies. And only the most green of Beltway newcomers would maintain that full candor is a part of the campaign...
Like a missionary spreading the gospel, the Soviet leader wasted no opportunity to talk up his policies. "If we are silent about certain shortcomings, then they inevitably grow," he warned. "Half-truth is worse than a lie." Gorbachev, 56, also spoke glowingly of Soviet attempts to bring "democracy closer to man," words that must have chilled the autocratic Ceausescu and his imperious wife Elena, 68, both of whose birthdays are national holidays. Beyond some pointed jabs at Rumania's dismal economic performance, Gorbachev avoided specific charges against the Ceausescu regime. The implicit warning, however, was clear: a recalcitrant Rumania would...