Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think implies an object or experience. But every object and experience can be shared by others, and so I-think implies the notion of Thou-art. Science itself reveals this sense of ''inter-subjective reality" every time "the lonely experimenter, wherever he is, knows he has discovered truth as unquestionably a truth for everyman . . . Modernity has thus held to its own type of certitude, its science, its humanistic confidence in human thinking-in brief to its 'I-think'-until on its own empirical ground it sees its incomplete truth. What religion may say, and truly...
...condition that it make no attempt to tell readers why it had been banned. By contrast with Keng Po, Indonesia's biggest paper (56,000), which in five months has not run a single editorial, Raya vowed an editorial last week: "We'll continue to fight for truth in so far as it is possible...
...likely to conclude from this that this graduate student can teach him nothing. He also notices that his grades are not consistently related to any observable quality of his work except penmanship. He therefore concludes that these grades are meaningless and arbitrary. Both theories contain just enough truth to make them a useful raft for his sinking self confidence...
...feels that he is different from his classmates, and he treasures this distinction. Yet the only real difference is that he is a little older intellectually. In order to feel really different he must forget what he was like but a year before. When a classmate discovers that the truth is not always in the Bible, or that the devil did not invent Communism, the Exonian's feelings are akin to those of an older brother explaining that babies do not come from storks...
...book is oddly reminiscent of BarChester Towers. Instead of Trollope's worldly clergy with fat cathedral livings. there are the Communist hierarchs of the "New Class." Instead of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, the cruel nonsense of dialectical truth provides the rules of the contest for place and power. Author Grinioff works the same novelist's magic as Trollope-the reader finds Communism hateful and absurd but still wants the little Red bank manager to beat the rap. The book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech...