Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate of the London School of Economics now in the doctoral program at Harvard Business School, I deplore the absurdity of Susan Cooper's attack on American education [Oct. 14]. She might have better served the truth were she familiar with the curriculum of an English university: the textbooks I used at L.S.E. were nearly all American...
...Your cover story on Cronkite points up one terrible truth. Image is the thing. This is true in newscasting, politics and (pardon) the press...
...facing inquisition, the Right Rev. James A. Pike, who recently quit as bishop of California, the central issue is "whether the Episcopal Church confines itself to a narrow interpretation of theology or allows its traditional wide range of freedom in seeking the truth." To Bishop Henry I. Louttit of south Florida, the man pressing for the trial, the issue is whether the church can tolerate within its ranks a bishop who has denied such fundamental dogmas as the Virgin Birth. "We want him to resign the episcopate," Louttit says. "The common word is unfrocked. I want him to admit that...
Chart to the Heart. Sensational and heady stuff indeed was Rousseau's masterpiece, Confessions, the chart with which Guehenno painstakingly navigates to the heart of the man. Rousseau's own resolution was to "put his life to the test of truth," and he did it by recording in Confessions every real and fancied failure, every agonizing triumph, every abrasive sand grain of guilt. He himself was in no doubt about the splendor and uniqueness of his autobiography. "It is without precedent," he boasted, "and will find no imitator -the only existing portrait of a man drawn from life...
Genius v. Vanity. After a stretch as a seminarian and a valet, Rousseau moved to Paris, where he lived as a music copyist. Somewhere along the line, tramping the road to Vincennes, he underwent a sort of religious experience, and concluded that revealing the truth about himself would reveal the truth to all other men. It cannot be said that he was very good at it, though the poetic cloud with which he haloed his life story is luminous to this...