Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family, Domenico Tardini, 70, received the Pope's messenger bringing him official notification of his elevation to the cardinalate. In his acceptance speech, the new Vatican Secretary of State recalled that he had refused a red hat from the late Pope Pius XII. Then he added: "The truth is, I wanted to be left in peace. Pope Pius never made anybody do or not do anything. But Pope John has said 'I wish it.' and I have to obey...
...Hegel, for his insistence that all reality can be encompassed in a rational structure. It was this that inspired the melancholy Dane, Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55), to raise the flag of philosophic revolt against all purely rationalist and positivist systems, and to declare that reality and truth are within man himself and his actions, whether they be rational or no. Kierkegaard argued that the central, all-important fact about man is the simplest one: his existence. But because man is the only creature who is self-conscious (in the literal sense, "conscious of himself"), he is the only...
...back to frontier days, he contended, has made Americans a nation of doers, suspicious of theorizing or abstract speculation. But just beneath the conscious surface. Dr. May saw in the American character a rich subsoil of concern for "knowing by doing." This brought him around to Kierkegaard, who proclaimed: "Truth exists for the individual only as he himself produces it in action...
...like-minded therapists, Freud's view of "natural man," moved by instinctual forces, is an essential element of the truth, but still inadequate. The view of man as a social creature, advanced by Sullivan and Karen Horney, adds a second dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than...
...year's Justine: that Anglo-Irish Author Durrell writes just about the most original prose fiction to be found today. Balthazar revisits the scene-Alexandria-and the characters of Justine, catches them again in a blaze of passion, decadence and self-doubt that adds a new dimension of truth to the many faces of love...