Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he begins to speak of the war itself, its past, its future, McGuire uses phrases which seem slightly trite on paper, but which are probably just the honest opinions of an Irishman who has been around a bit. "It's just like any other war," he says, "they never solve anything, it never does any good." The war's origin is simple, he feels: "the Ibos were right to secede. They're smart, the smartest in Africa, they have all the doctors and lawyers." Though the origin of the war is tribal, its continuation may be due to intervention...
...Lessons of History, the Durants do not set themselves up as oracles. On the contrary, they are disarmingly honest in admitting that all historians operate with partial knowledge, and that any belief that they can examine a past epoch with total perspective is largely an optical illusion. "Most history is guessing," they confess, "and the rest is prejudice." Still, in their long tour through history, the Durants have reached some conclusions. A major one is that man, and not his environment, makes civilization. Over and over again, they submit, man has proved his capacity to make a culture when...
...right instead was not a product of directorial manipulation. In the Hamburg bar, a pan down to black nylons on the neck of a champagne bottle first resembles an adequate scene transition--the camera moving to a place from which to cut away--later takes on the meaning of honest foreshadowing...
...because they're dissatisfied with the way the so called "justice" of Whites seems to be so one sided. Can it be that White America got confused when they coined the term "justice"? Noah Webster in his white dictionary defines justice as "the quality of being correct or right, honest, impartial and fair in representation of facts." Plato defined justice as "every part doing its own work and not interfering with others." Aristotle taught that justice included both the legal and the fair. Can it be that from the chairs around the table of the smoke filled room that...
They symmetrical sets, of bronzed wood, designed by Mike Boak, was honest and handsome. Costuming was in one or two cases inspired. The lighting was enormously subtle, precisely effective...