Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...followers must not expect our leaders to be infallible; so why does L.B.J. consider it necessary to convince the American public that Big Daddy has all the answers? Is the President correct in his assumption that Americans aren't mature enough to accept the truth? Do we as responsible citizens want to hide behind ignorance, so that, if future historians condemn our stand in Viet Nam, we can say we didn't know...
Dissolving Empire. The truth, as De Gaulle privately sees it, is really quite the reverse, according to Kaplan. Driven by dissent at home over race relations and the Viet Nam war, "surrounded on all sides by enemies and cool allies," the U.S. must appear to De Gaulle like "an emasculated monster." Far from picking on the strong, De Gaulle hopes that he is lunging at the weak. "The chief aim of De Gaulle's policy is to divide the spoils of the American empire that he sees as dissolving or at least contracting...
...years since Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species exploded in the midst of the square Victorian scene. Man's thoughts about man have not been the same since. Is he in truth just a little lower than the angels? Or did he evolve as just another species of animal? It seems like an old-fashioned question, but it still preoccupies poets, theologians, scientists and-emphatically-naturalists, whose books on primates seem to be crowding each other to get on the publishers' lists...
...basically different from the animals, that would undermine "those who now oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that all human beings, being equal in their humanity, should be treated equally." Inferior types might be looked upon as man now looks on inferior animals. A large measure of truth could be read into one of Hitler's Nürnberg decrees that held "there is a greater difference between the lowest forms still called human and our superior races than between the lowest man and monkeys of the highest order." Yet Adler gives the subject a new twist...
...discuss something like a Supreme Being that is imminent rather than transcendent: a function or aspect of human experience. I could have quoted Hindu doctrine to make it fit, but I chose to write it in my own words. I wrote about the highest moments of perception and truth and reality, and the power of love, communion, and creativity...