Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready-made peace, but a set of treaty sketches with 26 questions still left wide open, including many major issues such as internationalization of the Danube. When Jimmy Byrnes snapped: "Those who fought the war should make the peace," he merely summed up the self-evident half-truth that not all nations are created equal and that a peace based on the fiction of equality would not work...
...spurious theory, still popular unfortunately, tries to explain that hideous penchant of ours for collecting things as nothing but a legitimate inheritance from some of our more squirrel-like ancestors. The bare truth of the matter is that collecting is a form of escapism. It affords the harried citizens of the modern rational world an opportunity to give way occasionally to outbursts of insanity without incurring any considerable danger of losing face...
...desire for prestige, status, the approval of his group? Is the businessman who gives up a $50,000 a year job to become a college president at $15,000 motivated primarily by fear of hunger or desire for material gain? . . . Are college professors motivated by the carrot? The truth is more nearly that they labor for ego-satisfaction in spite of a paucity of carrots in their chosen academic course. . . . Whatever is the case for the donkey", the incentive for human behavior need not be material gain...
Barrett and his men got up typical admen's charts which graphically analyzed the bitter truth. In the last 14 years of Los Angeles County's tremendous (47%) growth, the Republicans had managed to win only 4% of the new voters. In the last two years the gain was a microscopic one-fifth of 1%. The county GOP had only four permanent employes-"not as many as it takes to run a good neighborhood grocery." Even the Communist Party had more permanent office space...
...truth about our religious culture is that all of us continue to be Jewish, and Orthodox, and Catholic, and Protestant, and liberal; and so that each of us is more than any one, more than all of these if taken separately. . . . Our religious heritage remains one more truly than it has become many; and its whole is greater and truer than the sum of its parts...