Word: true
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea was suggested by Jesse Birnbaum, our San Francisco bureau chief since last January after 18 years as a writer and senior editor in New York. Traveling west with an Easterner's (Passaic, N.J.) eye. Birnbaum was immediately struck by "how much of the California legend was true-the climate, the geography, the hordes of new Californians shucking off old ways and values and experimenting with the new"-sometimes compulsively, sometimes casually. "The more I got to know San Francisco, the more intrigued I became with its life style, its easy atmosphere, the narcissism of the city...
...irrepressible president, Meyer Weisgal, 75, a former Broadway impresario, leaves on fund-raising tours with these parting words to his scientists: "Boys and girls, I am going to tell many lies about you and the Weizmann Institute. When I come back, I want all the lies to be true...
...California everything seems intensified to the point of excess. If excellence and beauty are nowhere more excellent and beautiful than in California, it is also true that nowhere else is the bad so ugly and the ugly so bad. It is full of dramatic contrasts, but what is the essence behind them? It is changing at a dizzying rate, but where are the changes taking it? What is it that people do to California-or California to them? One way to find out is to be born there. Another is to play a latter-day Candide-an innocent...
...added that "if a good majority of Lowell House is anxious to do this, then I would be anxious to help them. If this isn't true, however, then perhaps it isn't worth making so much disruption for the sake of a limited number of people for one term...
Such responsibility becomes a candidate. Marchi, however, was unable to stay true to the pattern he had set for himself. First he made the mistake of calling Jacob Javits a "pompous, posturing ass"-which many Lindsay workers found doubly satisfying, since they were pleased to see Marchi pull such an obviously foolish blunder, and since secretly they may have agreed with Marchi's estimate. Marchi himself had to admit he had tarnished his image as "the Perry Como of politics." And then came M-Day with the Staten Islander revealing himself in no uncertain terms, accusing Lindsay of having stuck...