Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a similar window 134 years ago, Arnold beheld his progressive, aggressive world and began serenely: "The sea is calm tonight./ The tide is full, the moon lies fair/ Upon the Straits . . . Come to the window, sweet is the night air!" A long, successful life lay ahead of him. His new bride was near by. But by the end of the stanza, he was hearing the "eternal note of sadness" in the sea and the rolling of the pebbles, and by the second stanza, the "ebb and flow/ Of human misery" was overwhelming. The final lines of Dover Beach...
...news of Ustinov's death first emerged last week after a world chess championship game was unexpectedly canceled in Moscow. The match had been scheduled for Friday evening at the House of Trade Unions, the hall where Soviet dignitaries traditionally lie in state. Questioned by a Western reporter, an elderly door attendant angrily said that Ustinov had died. Official confirmation came several hours later from Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended his trip to Britain a day early in order to return to Moscow. "We have had a great and tragic loss," Gorbachev explained before leaving Edinburgh. "Marshal Ustinov...
...convinced that the U.S. could not win the war militarily in Viet Nam. Yet when he later went before a Senate committee, testifying as the Secretary of Defense, he strongly denied that we were in a "no-win" war. By ordinary standards, this would seem a lie, but not to McNamara. Testifying in the current libel trial of General William Westmoreland vs. CBS, McNamara said he based his testimony to Congress on the unstated hope that Henry Kissinger (then a private citizen) might be able to work out a diplomatic peace. That is what is known to theologians...
...century no politician faced such indecent public exposure, expected to answer tough questions instantly without squirming and with seeming candor, under the camera's up-close searching eye. The questions are often prosecutorial: if a politician tells the truth, he may get in trouble; if he tells a lie, he may get into worse trouble; if he waffles, he will be pressed further. The talent to survive is essential to the politician, but detrimental to the man. It has produced a new mutant in the modern political animal-the chummy dissembler-that many people find distasteful...
...sincerely believe that Caron's intentions were honorable in writing this article and I appreciate his interests in Native American issues. I believe the blame does not really lie on Caron, but on the stereotypes created in American society through textbooks, movies, TV commercials, tacky tourist shops...