Word: liar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever More Ridiculous. Editorial writ ers have been convicted for calling De Gaulle a "liar," and Political Writer Alfred Fabre-Luce was fined $300 for describing him as "a combination of Machiavelli and Cyrano de Bergerac." Truth is no defense. Former Cabinet Minister Henry Lemery, 93, was found guilty and fined for writing that De Gaulle, as the leader of Free French forces during World War II, personally ordered attacks against Vichy French garrisons in Dakar and Algeria-even though most historians now agree that he did just that. The government indicted the anti-Gaullist weekly Minute on charges...
Annie Girardoux is eloquent as Catherine, the almost-middle-aged woman who is old enough to understand Robert, and yet so much younger than Candice, the shallow, suave worldling. Catherine reminds one of Julie Christie in Billy Liar--a woman so loving that she will sacrifice her love to her man's happiness...or his whim...
Radical or Liar? By far, his most effective performance came before 3,000 Wisconsin State University students in Stevens Point. In snow-bunny country, he japed about his own ski-jump nose, then turned serious for a continent-by-continent review of U.S. policy. On Viet Nam, Nixon nimbly sidestepped the thorny question of what should be done about the problem now, and simply insisted: "We must prevent confrontations like that in Viet Nam. We must help people in the free world fight against aggression, but not do their fighting for them...
...point, Student James Kellerman leaped up and loudly challenged him: "I am convinced you are either for radical social change or you are a liar. What radical programs are you for? Do you believe Latin American people have the right to rebel against dictatorships?" Nixon replied that he was all for "revolutions" in agriculture and education in Latin America, but added: "I don't want to blow countries up. I am talking not about marching feet but helping hands...
Memory is a subtle liar and often a bad writer of fiction-but it can be a marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside...