Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family: Wife Jane, Daughter Constance, 17, and Son Mike, 14. Freeman's hard-driving pace has brought him an ulcer and a spastic colon, and he sips milk and buttermilk at his desk to quiet his innards. Occasionally a spasm comes upon him, and he has to lie down on a couch in his office, rigid as a rake handle...
Before he headed up to Capitol Hill for what promised to be a rough grilling by the House Information Subcommittee on the subject of "managed news,"-Pentagon Press Secretary Arthur Sylvester was given some sage advice by a coworker. "Never, under any circumstances whatsoever, use the word lie," urged Defense Department Counsel John McNaughton. "Don't use it negatively, don't use it positively. If you have to tell the committee you want to lie down, say recline...
Sylvester could hardly follow McNaughton's advice; somehow he had to explain away his Cuba crisis statement that the Government has "the inherent right, if necessary, to lie to save itself." But in three hours of testimony, Sylvester seemed to satisfy his congressional inquisitors that his was simply "a brutal answer to a rather brutal question" at a "freewheeling" dinner held by the journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Next, he was asked to defend himself against the now familiar suggestion that he ought to resign from the Defense Department on the ground that he has "damaged his usefulness...
...daft counterpoint to the bird-damning villagers. But the most unforgettable performers in The Birds are the birds. They are utterly, terrifyingly believable as they go about their bloody business of murdering humanity. Pigeons loitering around the exits of theaters where this movie is shown would be wise to lie low until the next change of feature...
That is "a philosophy of totalitarianism utterly foreign to our American precepts," argued Lee Hills, executive editor of the five-paper Knight chain. Said Publisher Gene Robb of the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union: "A government can successfully lie no more than once to its people. Thereafter, everything it says and does becomes suspect." Roughest of all was the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff, who suggested that veteran Newsman Sylvester, 61 (37 years with the Newark News), ought to resign...