Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conscience to be as big a man as he can," Woodrow Wilson said in a lecture at Columbia in 1906. "His capacity will set the limit." Few today would agree. In a world complicated by foreign committments, enlarged bureaucracy, and increased technology, it is almost a truism that a clutch of factors restrain the President...
...Thing of the Past." Many press accounts managed to read into Ike's observation an endorsement of Nixon for next year's nomination. It was, of course, a mere political truism-and no one knew it better than Nixon himself. To be sure, he said, if there was a Republican deadlock, his name would come up. But, he insisted, in practical political terms, "deadlocks are a thing of the past...
...didactic young fellow who seems to feel that he has been personally appointed by Providence to sit in judgment on 80 million Germans. In Altona as in Nuremberg, his script is angry, preachy, shrill. It not only talks down. It is filled with the sort of teacher-knows-best truism ("It is better to face the truth no matter what the cost") that for reply invites a spitball...
...play, whether serious or satirical, which affirms that man has bestial tendencies merely states a truism if the production is poor. On the program of Oh What A Lovely War are quotations denouncing war from such diverse men as Mathiez and MacArthur, giving credence to the assertion that it is only a propaganda piece embellished by slick staging. As such it pales in comparison to The Rabbit Race which is more caustic and convincing by treating fresh characters, not tired caricatures...
...began with a prepared statement. "For generations," he said, "Americans have prided themselves on being a people with democratic ideals, a people who pay no attention to a man's race, creed or color. That very phrase has become a truism. But it is a truism with a fundamental defect; it has not been true . . . White people of whatever kind-even prostitutes, narcotics pushers, Communists or bank robbers-are welcome at establishments which will not admit certain of our federal judges, ambassadors and countless members of our armed forces." "You Tell Me." Then the Commerce Committee members began asking...