Word: lying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laws but the most approved methods ... of finding the loopholes. . . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . . If a journalist, how-to slant, alter, lie. . . . In the securities field . . . the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers...
Extraction. In Portland, Ore., a shopper popped out her false teeth, let them lie. Reason: she refused to lose her place in the nylon queue...
...written by Sophocles, the play tells the story of Oedipus' daughter Antigone, whose two brothers kill each other in a quarrel over who shall succeed their dead father. When Creon, Antigone's uncle, takes the throne, he issues his edict that one of the brothers must lie unburied, as a lesson that the law must be enforced. Protesting this indignity, Antigone twice attempts to bury the body. Her efforts fail, she is caught and condemned to death, finally commits suicide...
...such, the story cannot fetch a complete response from modern, morticianed man. The circumstances lie outside his experience; it is not the reality, it is only the intensity of Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...
...their crimson capes, 28 high prelates* came forward one by one to kiss the Pope's foot and be embraced, came forward again to receive their cardinals' hats (which rested only a few seconds on their heads and will never again be worn or used until they lie on their owner's bier). Then the cardinals, men of 16 nations from six continents, embraced each other in a gesture of man's brotherhood. As the Pope left St. Peter's and the Sistine Choir sang the Te Deum, the new cardinals, in a gesture...