Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disgraceful lack of conviction which the Church of England recently exhibited in its shilly-shallying treatment of the question of the existence of demons. It is only to God's certified earthly representative and interpreter-the Holy Roman Catholic Church-that we can look for theological truth and progress. "If you want the dope, ask the Pope...
...tribute as man and newsman. Said Acting Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "He was a great newspaperman, a good friend." And TIME's Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce spoke for us all in mourning Jim McConaughy: "He was dedicated to the service of his country and of truth...
...grain of truth in this story may be the tribesmen in the southern Sudan and elsewhere who still stand on one foot with the other foot held flat against the shin...
...centuries, had been going out from the walls of Harvard?" Determined that not one whit of Veritas be lost to the future, Sibley resolved to write such a record. His project: to write a biographical sketch of every man who ever went to Harvard. Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up. Historian Sibley set to work. He was confident, he wrote, that although his research might turn up "cases of iniquity which may have escaped...
...scoundrel in Europe has roots"), that if success does not come at once, discouragement sets in. He believes that, influenced by a "popularized, anonymous positivistic philosophy," too many Americans are afraid to hold strong opinions. Maritain makes a profound observation about tolerance: "The man who says 'What is truth?', as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human race. There is . . . genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth . . . and when, at the same time, he recognizes the right of those who deny this truth to exist...