Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of TIME's regard for the truth, I know you will correct a misrepresentation which has twice occurred in TIME publications involving me, most recently in the March 2 issue. I have never told Lyndon Johnson that I was "the biggest birthday present of 'em all" for him. In fact I have never told Lyndon that I was any kind of a present for anyone...
...reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
...desert. Everyone knows that the personality of a scholar influences both the kinds of questions he asks and the kinds of answers he gives. Is it not then inevitable that the demands and expectations of students, colleagues, and administrators will also influence his definitions of reality and truth...
...Guterma (TIME, Feb. 23) took time out to pass his own sentence. Bleated he: "I'm a mortally wounded animal. I've been completely ruined and discredited before any determination by the courts." There was little doubt that Guterma, charged with fraud by SEC, spoke the truth...
Farce tends to make Harvard actors foresake the search for truth in favor of mugging and running around, and none of these three productions is exempt from this tendency. As indicated above, there are compensations (Jane Fishburne's imaginative costumes comprise another.) But whoever exhumed these scripts deserves a citation for industry very far beyond the call of duty. There is something exhilarating about a triumph over a script that has outlived its audience-appeal, but there is something even more exhilarating about a successful collaboration with a good...