Word: liar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of the real me dies." On the nature of his gifts: "I am a superior sort of liar. I don't tell any truth at all, so then my story has a unity of parts, a structural integrity. [It] sounds more like the truth than truth itself." On the leading passion of his life: "It's rascality! Pure rascality...
Last week Publisher Moore admitted that he had invoked the Blackout. Black is a "controversial figure," said Moore, in explanation, and was "seeking publicity." To charges that the ban was his doing, Cannon snapped: "This all comes from the same place-from the biggest liar in North Carolina." But on the streets that Cannon owns, everyone knew that the boss had penciled out the man who dared to oppose...
...items in Oppenheimer's past should disqualify him for such an honor, Veritas claimed: his pre-war Communist associations, and an admitted lie to Government investigators. This second point dominated the anti-Oppenheimer campaign. With heavy logic, Veritas drummed away at the charge that a proved liar was coming to lecture on ethics "to the young students at Harvard." As a matter of fact, ethics had nothing to do with Oppenheimer's lecture series, which dealt with the philosophical implications of modern science...
...That Means a Liar." The trial of proud, brainy Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, is the most glaring case in a campaign of delay and harassment that Senate Democrats are carrying on against President Eisenhower's appointees (TIME, May 4 et seq.). Fortnight ago Ike pointed out that 47 major appointments were still awaiting Senate confirmation. But Strauss is also a victim of a personal vendetta waged against him by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Agriculture Secretary under Harry Truman and now chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee...
...over the long-since-canceled Dixon-Yates private-power contract with AEC, and 4) creating "myths" about his achievements. When Anderson accused Strauss of "unqualified falsehoods," New Hampshire's Republican Senator Norris Cotton broke in: "That is a polite word, but where I come from that means a liar...