Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spokesmen said they feared that the terrors of the deadpan, we're-here-on-the-scene reporting would send the public into the streets screaming as did the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Charged Director Peter Watkins, "The BBC was really afraid that the truth about the effects of nuclear war would result in a massive protest to ban the bomb...
...ourselves constantly rejecting offers of "other ways to make money"-such as editing. But the main point is, I think, that most of us still like to approach writing -whether for magazines or books or newspaper supplements-more for the sake of expression than income, more in search of truth than rewards; and we are not so much caught up in "an American dream" as still seeking ways to resolve the American nightmares...
With characteristic self-mockery, the Beatles are proclaiming that they have snuffed out their old selves to make room for the new Beatles incarnate. And there is some truth to it. Without having lost any of the genial anarchism with which they helped revolutionize the life style of young people in Britain, Europe and the U.S., they have moved on to a higher artistic plateau...
...know we can distinguish between the person who comes in playing the truth game and the one really interested in going straight...
Author Lewis unvaryingly places law and truth on the side of the Jews, though he dedicates the book "to my Catholic wife." He never animates Michel's character, never lets the child himself choose between Mile. Rose and his Israeli relatives. Instead, Jewish characters talk endlessly about history and suffering, Catholics indulge in petty lies and machinations. One Jewish character says wisely: "Better he be a good French Catholic than a neurotic Israeli Jew," but only one priest knows right from wrong. Though modeled on St. Peter, he proves to be papier-mache instead of rock...