Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Senate, Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille, put the issue bluntly to Premier Michel Debré: "It is the government's duty to condemn torture. If it believes such practices are necessary, it must say so. It must not hide the truth." White-faced, Debré interrupted to call the book a "complete and utter fabrication. When the limits of what I would call 'the right to be angry' have been overstepped, measures have been taken." Debré said that "two hired Communist hacks," were authors of the book, though it is issued...
...Ralph Richardson), whose single-minded concern for teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share her with the bookseller. At play's end, Mary and Clive prepare for a cold assignation in shabby rooms, already fearing that she will inevitably...
...monastery, joined the U.S. Navy, faked some college credentials and presented himself as a candidate for commission. When the security section started to investigate, Fred started to pack. He rejoined the Trappists, this time under the alias of Dr. Robert Linton French, a doctor of psychology whose search for truth had led him to abandon the world. But, as the brothers soon discovered, big, beefy Dr. French was not ready to abandon all of the world. He was caught "talking constantly," revealed gobbling grapes from the monastery's vines in defiance of the dietary regulations, and was advised...
...genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of the real me dies." On the nature of his gifts: "I am a superior sort of liar. I don't tell any truth at all, so then my story has a unity of parts, a structural integrity. [It] sounds more like the truth than truth itself." On the leading passion of his life: "It's rascality! Pure rascality...
...Kanin. carefully foreshadowing, leads the reader toward what should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...