Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aging dictator when Beria recalled that in the old days Stalin used to call Lenin "the mountain eagle," and that Lenin in return called Stalin "the fiery Colchian." The man who put that on paper was the man Stalin trusted. He who expressed the Leader's truth so baldly must be the Leader's chief hunter of heresy...
That President Truman's charted route ultimately means war seems an accepted truth on the part of at least some supporters of his plan who want armament for strict preparedness purposes. This is the greatest current tragedy in light of the fact that it is not too late to redirect our policies triumphantly. What endangers this country is not the ideology of socialism but the seizure of power by disciplined groups string-pulled from Moscow...
...sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility. For, in the name of courage, which men have always rightly esteemed in one another as the indispensable virtue, he summons Protestants to seek truth...
Though he warns that ,the human implications of truth are tragic, he does not condemn the pursuit of happiness which modern civilization, more than any other, has legitimatized. But he implies that the pursuit of happiness loses measure, just as optimism loses reality, if neither is aware of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity." And he gives a discipline of mind and a structure of meaning to the tragic cry of Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno: "A Miserere sung in a cathedral by a multitude tormented by destiny has as much value as a philosophy...
...automatically preserves whatever is proper to his nature. When Author Whyte wrote the book he thought that Russia had perhaps gone farthest in the direction of a unitary society. Since that time, he says in the preface, he has concluded differently: "World order implies a unity tolerant of diversity; truth, justice, and the welfare of man depend on individuals with the courage and opportunity to express their varied opinions...