Word: lying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Somewhere between George Washington, who could not tell a lie, and Franklin Roosevelt, who could not tell the truth, lies (pun intended) Lyndon Johnson, who evidently can't tell the difference. I do not like the man. But I wholeheartedly support America's efforts in Viet...
...Lovestone, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, for the purpose of helping various anti-Communist unions abroad. His article is highly self-flattering and oversimplified, but most of his statements appear to be correct. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany called Braden's account "a damn lie"-but added cautiously, "to the best of my knowledge...
...Pencey Prep. I mean he's really irresponsible. My Aunt Nina wants him to be a Disraeli or something, but Joe's ambition is to be a khutmul Mao. If you must know, that's a person rich Hindus hire to lie in their beds at home while they go on holiday so the bedbugs will have somebody to bite. Joe's a terrific liar, so you never know when he's kidding around. I mean he's a madman. Joe's always horsing around doing things like converting to Mohammedanism...
Dramatically, this quest almost always takes the form of a secret to be ferreted out. In Naked, the secret seems to lie with a disconsolate governess. A child in her care has dropped to its death from a terrace. As a result, she loses her job, her fiance, and attempts suicide. A "human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scurrying to pry out their share of the secret. An aging writer thinks the governess' story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance throws himself at her feet, in the belief that...
Devoid of sexual passion, a corporate creature whose work is his life, "he" becomes the Oriental equivalent of the passive Antonioni villain. In the end, "she" and "he" lie side by side in bed, untouching, distant relatives by marriage; their bleak lives infinitely poorer than those of their impoverished neighbors...