Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee a New York State tax bill that would have cost A. & P. $2,000,000 a year). A Byoir maxim: "If the truth doesn't sound believable, don't tell...
...machines, CBS pioneered last month in taping its Douglas Edwards news program for replay on the West Coast. Last week, after the inaugural, NBC began taping Today, Home and Tonight for the West. Both networks have also begun using tape to record complete shows in advance-NBC with Truth or Consequences, and CBS with one or two hours of the Arthur Godfrey Show so that fans will not languish entirely without the real Arthur while he goes on a five-week vacation to Africa. Among its advantages, the tape does away with waiting for "rushes" to see if retakes...
...moment is everything. Scriptures are snares for the mind's entanglement-a favorite Zen picture shows a Zen monk tearing up a Buddhist scroll. Even concepts are to be shunned as far as possible. "Emptiness" is looked upon by the Zen Buddhist as the closest thing to truth...
...party, being all things to all people. He lives in a vague world of superficial friendliness, where charm is an easy way of life, and genuine warmth is reserved for work. And yet, at the worst of his extravertigo, Bernstein never lost sight of his first principles: truth to his word, loyalty to friends and family, devotion to music for its own sake. Nor did he ever lose his highly engaging, childlike wonder at being famous and doing exciting things, like meeting movie stars or the New York Philharmonic's august board of directors...
...What? Incest again?" fans of Ivy Compton-Burnett will cry upon opening Brothers and Sisters. Again an old desk, locked for decades, containing a letter containing the terrible truth? Again a hard fate visiting the sins of the father upon the children...