Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter is as familiar a cardboard cutout as the prostitute with a heart of gold. This is the skeptical spirit that gave us Watergate, and though it has had no comparable success since (how could it?), the attitude persists. Without that spirit, he would insist, politicians would cheat and lie and always get away with it; government snoopery and police brutality would go undetected and unchecked; products would never be shown up for being less than advertised; wretched conditions, unreported and uncorrected, might bring on civic disorder-in a thousand ways, both trivial and important, the world would...
...brand cattle, herd sheep and, noted an observer, "had a go at everything." But what the third son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy really wants to have a go at is salvaging Uncle John's World War II patrol boat, PT109. The boat is thought to lie in 1,400 ft. of water off the Solomon Islands, where it was sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. J.F.K.'s heroic part in the survival of his crew became a legend that contributed notably to his political career. When young Michael learned of an Australian effort...
...Marxist philosophy holds that the most important problem does not lie in understanding the laws of the objective world and thus being able to explain it, but in applying the knowledge of these laws actively to change the world...
...from a lack desire for a union, but from fears--fueled by Harvard's information campaign--that District 65 would not be strong enough to bargain forcefully with the University. While NLRB records show the union owes only a small percentage of its assets to creditors-giving the lie to the argument that District65's organizing drive was largely a mercenary operation-many workers who said they opposed the union questioned its negotiating efectiveness. Spurred by the University's information campaign, several ad-hoc workers' groups organized against the union, arguing that District 65's lack of success in organizing...
...truly great tragedies of the lives of most of us is that our existence is a high-walled lane, down which we travel with people of our own kind--of the same education, economic status, national background, religious classification--while beyond the walls on left and right lie all humanity, unknown, unseen, untouched by our restricted, impoverished lives...