Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found myself praying out loud, and I laid my life bare. I remember saying, 'I'm here, taking a stand, and I've come to the point where I can't face it alone.' " From somewhere came the answer: stand for truth, stand for righteousness; God is at your side. Says Martin King: "I have not known fear since...
...third secretary of the Swedish legation, his luggage bulging with information on Hungarian underground agents and secretly pro-Allied officials of the Hungarian government. Operating with enormous zeal and energy, he persuaded Hungarian officials that if a Jew claimed neutral citizenship he should not be deported until the truth of his claim had been established. This done, he promptly affixed to the homes of some 20,000 such Jews signs that read: "Under the Protection of the Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name of the Swedish legation, packed them with other Jews; he issued thousands...
...Author (The Trouble of One House) and New Yorker Critic Brendan Gill hangs a morality tale. It boils down to the adage that appearances are deceiving. Charlie, with all his faults, has the courage to look coolly and calmly at Life. Richard, despite all his probity, is frightened of Truth. When Charlie suggests that their revered father drove his wife to suicide and fathered an illegitimate child (Ellen, the girl in the outer office), brother Richard and sister Kathie cry him down, not because they doubt what he says, but because it would be too agonizing to change the image...
...mistress could stand the man. The simple device which keeps up a creditable amount of suspense throughout the series of interviews which make up the body of the film is the question of whether the reporter will make the memorial show into a fake eulogy or tell the truth. The solution to his problem is as neat as everything else about the picture...
...shall know the truth" is the pious text to which Real Truth magazine cynically subscribes in its impious operations, "and the truth shall make you free." The kind of truth that Real Truth publishes has made its publisher (Steve Cochran) free of financial worries. Once a nickel-and-dime pressagent for a string of strippers, he can now afford to have the Rolls brought round to a Park Avenue address. But then all at once circulation, and with it Cochran's elegant new world, begins to crumble. "What we need," he storms at his harried staff, "is a really...