Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called one of his editors and thrust a marked page of TIME under his nose. "I want you to tell me how that sentence got in there and why," Luce demanded. The editor gulped, admitted that he had written it, and said that it represented his judgment of the truth of the situation. Luce sighed. "I've been trying for seven years to get that sentence into the magazine," he said...
H.R.L. was no press lord in the tradition of Britain's Lord Beaverbrook or America's William Randolph Hearst. Power was not his passion-what burned in him was the search for truth and the desire to communicate it. And the way he went about it was to hire the best men he could and engage them in what amounted to a continuous dialogue. The degree of autonomy he gave his editors and the interplay of ideas he encouraged was a constant source of amazement to any outsider who encountered it. The late Aga Khan once offered Luce...
...with skill and insight; he did a far better job than one usually finds in such sketches. But in trying to picture for us possibly the most influential figure in the turbulent Harvard community of the last quarter-century he attempted something of more than ordinary difficulty. The plain truth, I think, is that some people are too varied in their energy, their interests, their influence to be caught in a single profile. One cannot cage an eagle. Zeph Stewart Master of Lowell House
...chambers to erase guilt by resurrecting likenesses of his dead brother, and then to prove his misculinity by destroying them, is offered by Zeligs as the motive for Chambers' falsifications against Hiss. The only problem with this neat analysis is that it applies equally well if Chambers told the truth. Whether he destroyed Hiss through real or forged evidence, his motives may still be as Zeligs defines them...
Neither picture has much bearing on the issue of Hiss's guilt. Just as an angered, homosexual Chambers could have been telling the truth, so a calm, likeable, industrious Hiss could have been lying. Zeligs gives no credence at all to his incongruous but hardly indefensible possibility. Nor does he explore a number of other, more speculative theories about the Hiss case which might have lent themselves to psychoanalytic study. Several people suspected either Hiss's wife or stepson of being involved in the passing of documents to Chambers, but Zeligs, after mentioning these hypotheses, subtly changes the subject without...