Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regardless of its origin," Bruner argued, "the pursuit of a University is secular." He stated that the search for truth "is damaged by commitment based on faith," and that, therefore, the University should not express official opinions on religious matters...
...confusing and so dumb, so pre-occupied with false values and false gods, that the sensitive soul can only recoil in to himself, where, in a snug world--"the inner world of the human psyche," The Editor calls it--a fellow can find himself and discover the "most meaningful truth." But even in this hallowed precinct, citizen-youth finds no peace, for in withdrawal, today's young people "are endangering society's future" because they are failing to cope with the issues of the cold war. Eventually, in the view of The Editor, history will force crisis upon "our generation...
This pronouncement by then-President Harry Truman was tossed off in a tradition-breaching exclusive interview that he gave New York Timesman Arthur Krock during the 1949-50 recession, and it had some cool-eyed economic truth in it. But last week, with the economy in a Republican recession (mid-March unemployment: 5,198,000), politically touchy Harry Truman publicly disowned his rare bit of economic wisdom...
...Republicans, and helped push through a bill setting up the Brooklyn Sports Center Authority. Governor Harriman, sometime 8-goal polo player, hustled down to Brooklyn, signed the measure at Borough Hall with the gallant announcement, "I am a Dodger fan." Walter sat back to savor the glorious future. The truth was that he was starting the longest fall downstairs in the history of American comedy...
...pretentious finlike protrusions of today's monsters of the highway are predetermined by public desire and not arbitrarily by the manufacturers. But mistakes have been made before in adjudging public wants. Actually, the turn by so many toward the tiny cars from Europe should have brought the truth home to an alert industry...