Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truth was that the rebels' only chance of success was the expectation that other areas all over Indonesia would unite with them in massive opposition to President Sukarno. The other areas held back. Even Sumatra itself proved no more united as an island than Indonesia is as a country...
...unstable and anxious." Using as his point of departure children's scrawls and the art of the insane, he is convinced that "art has much to do with madness." ¶ Serge Poliakoff, a gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius...
Born Apostle. Zarur was a successful radio scripter when, in 1949, he sat in his usual café and suddenly saw "the figure of a Catholic priest appear, then disappear." Thus Zarur was inspired by the "truth of spiritualism"-which, as a blend of Catholic symbols and African superstitions, is one of the most serious obstacles to the growth of Christianity in Brazil. He dreamed up a new agony radio program called Hour of Good Will. Letters poured in dripping with misfortunes and appeals for help, and as Zarur read them over the air, he was fascinated by the number...
Died. Giuseppe Romita, 71, post-World War II Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who-if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome...
...installs him as company clerk, breaks up his lyrical love affair with a charming French girl, and begins an unconscious homosexual pursuit. Each night he takes the boy off to village bars until their lives become a dreadful bender from which Tom cannot escape, only half sensing the truth about the sergeant that must sooner or later burst to the surface...