Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Artie's plane had landed at St. Louis, the airline knew the awful truth: Artie Biggs had cracked the system which had cleared 9,000,000 transcontinental passengers without a stowaway. He was hauled off to a children's shelter, got 50? from a St. Louis cop en route, and shipped home the following day to his widowed mother, who was not amused. "You know," Artie told reporters who met him at La Guardia, "I'll probably get spanked for this...
...Truth & Consequences. Fraser's charge that Newfoundlanders' legal rights end at the gates of the U.S. bases was perfectly true. That was the letter of the British U.S. agreement drawn up when the bases were leased. Since then Newfoundland has become part of Canada, and Canada is not willing to grant, in one of her provinces, concessions to the U.S. as liberal as those that Britain handed over when Newfoundland was a colony. The occasional snarl-up of Canadian and U.S. legal authority rubbed Canadian pride...
Psychoanalysts and the friendly clergymen, says Author Kristol, tend to talk about human happiness instead of truth: they "blithely agree that religion and psychoanalysis have at heart the same intention: to help men 'adjust' ... to make them happy or virtuous or productive...
...because he thought it a virtuous law. The Law was true because it was divine-it was God's Law, a revelation of man's place in the fundamental constitution of existence ... Men's true happiness and virtue are in adhering to this truth-because it is true...
Orthodox psychoanalysis and religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...