Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...True, true, true. Your article on youth crime rang with truth. I myself was a victim of an assault by a 14-year-old. Surprisingly, he was set free, because it was a "first offense...
Painter-Diplomat. Fame, money and beautiful lovers-such, Freud tells us, are the chief goals of an artist's life. No painter ever achieved them more fully than Rubens. In a Europe riven by religious and political conflicts, he was one of the first true cosmopolitans: he was both painter and diplomat, and on delicate negotiations (as with his efforts to make a treaty between Spain and England, for which Charles I duly knighted him), Rubens the court portraitist served as splendid cover for Rubens the agent. He spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance...
...knows that life is unfair. It is also, as Thomas Hobbes pointed out, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Life's unfair ness is so self-evident in, say, slums, or institutions for the retarded and insane, or in any cancer ward, that it needs no sad-but-true sighings from the White House. To be sure, the President did have other reasons; he fears, for one thing, that abortion may become merely belated contraception. Certainly, responsible people should take greater care to practice contraception in the first place. And surely it is too casual to say, as Psychiatrist...
...church is equally assertive toward outside critics. Scientologists have filed scores of lawsuits against skeptical journalists, dissident former members and Government agencies, which have long suspected the church of being a profit-making counseling outfit and no true religion at all.* These well-publicized tactics have helped Scientology grow to a claimed membership of 3.5 million (TIME, April...
...walked the sawdust trail, Graham remembers, others were weeping, and since he was not, he wondered whether his commitment was genuine. Despite the exuberance of some new converts, however, Graham writes that being born again does not mean that "we will never have any problems. This isn't true, but we do have Someone to help us face our problems. The Christian life is not a way 'out' but a way 'through' life...