Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church of Rome last week stepped up its crusade to save Italy from going Communist in next month's election. Said Pope Pius (addressing 1,500 streetcar motormen and conductors): "The doctrine of Christian truth and faith is irreconcilable with materialistic maxims. . . ." Proclaimed the Catholic Action Committee: ". . . It is the hour of the great battle for Christ or against Christ...
...TIME'S 13th cover) had returned from convalescence to take up a fruitless job as head of the American Construction Council. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin† was quietly getting his hammer lock on the Communist Party. In Ahmadabad, Gandhi, jailed, was finding words which were to become truth to scores of millions...
...last week the Walking Man had broken some sort of record by passing up Miss Hush and strolling into his tenth week on Ralph Edwards' Truth or Consequences (Sat. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The prizes had piled up to $22,500 worth of Cadillacs, home-freeze units, trips to Sun Valley. The American Heart Association was wallowing in contributions from would-be contestants (last week they topped a million dollars), and the mail was terrific: 114,000 letters in one day last week...
...ended, two men had felt that it was ending. They were Fyodor Dostoevsky and Sören Kierkegaard. Both men were pessimists. To Dostoevsky, the human situation was a tragic drama. To Kierkegaard, it was a tragic argument. Both men felt that the anguish of human experience, the truth of man's nature and God's nature and the relationship of God and man, could be grasped only by a new dimension of perception...
...dialectic; that is, he sees in paradox not the defeat of logic but the grist of an intellectual calculus-a necessary climbing tool for attempting the higher peaks of thought. The twists & turns of his reasoning and his wary qualifications are not hedging, but the effort to clamber after truth. He knows that simplicity is often merely the misleading coherence of complexity...