Word: truth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass media are not telling us the truth." Then how and from whom did you learn the "evils" you correctly deplore? After all, your information comes from one or another organ of--the mass media...
...definitely question the programs, the conduct, the responsibility, and the legitimacy of the Corporation. Its members have consistently failed the standards of good faith, truth, openness, and dedication to the bettermen of their fellow men on which every university, let alone this one, must be founded...
Somehow, without seeming to threaten in any egocentric way, I feel I must get before the Faculty the simple truth that in the atmosphere created by recent meetings it will be virtually impossible to hold the service of a Fred Glimp or a Chase Peterson or the remarkably hardworking professors who make up the Committee on Education Policy. And I shall have to make it equally clear that in such an atmosphere it will be completely impossible for anyone who also cares about teaching and scholarship to justify what seems to be an increasingly futile effort to represent his colleagues...
Welcome as such facts will be to investors, the new SEC rule only reaches the foothills of a Himalayan problem. Accounting practices, on which laymen rely as a warrant of truth, have grown increasingly elastic. Tax laws give companies great latitude in deciding how to treat both assets and costs that affect profits. Frequently, companies quite legally report results one way to the public and another to the tax collector. The conglomerates in particular are worried. Says Chairman Laurence Tisch Jr. of Loew's Theaters: "Accounting tricks are taking over. There's no rule on how to keep...
Novelist Burgess's principal credential as critic is one that should be essential. He loves the language. Many critics profess to do so as a man will say he "loves children," but the truth of such claims can be tested by the question: how often is he seen playing with children? Like Joyce, Burgess loves to play with words, the greatest of toys allowed to grown men. English is not enough; he can play in Russian, German, Spanish and Malay, and this gives him the insight of a craft-brother to a hundred writers who have little in common...