Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Larger Truth. From time to time she made trips to the Russian collectives, was appalled by the horrors which the kulaks suffered in the name of economic necessity. American friends in Moscow saw her come home from these trips and break down weeping. But for all her disappointments in Communism, she clung to it. Of the collectives which had horrified her, she actually wrote: "One hundred million of the world's most backward peasants almost overnight [swung] into ultra-modern farming . . . Their increased income [was] translatable into silk dresses, perfumes, musical instruments...
...became one of Communism's most devoted apologists; like the rest of her kind, she was always ready to twist or submerge the facts in the interest of "the larger truth." Said one of her friends: "She thought the blundering revolution needed her mothering and understanding...
...winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime of devoted service. Her fate might or might not be a lesson to other willing tools of the larger Communist "truth...
...because of overcrowded classrooms or overloaded schedules that teachers are falling down on the job, said Dean Carman. The big reason is that teachers themselves are not being taught to teach. Said he: "We have persisted in the assumption . . . that good teachers are born, hence cannot be made . . . The truth of the matter is that teachers can be made, but at present are not being made, or are being made badly...
...wild west chase. The story of a British psychiatrist who can't solve his own problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down in flames, a sinister Luger, Japanese torturers, truth serums, a to-the-rescue courtroom exoneration, and a little boy whose gap-toothed, trusting grin sets everything right in a fogless London...