Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same problem Congressmen face in patronage fights. The unsophisticated observer thinks Congressmen love to hand out patronage -- like postmasterships in small towns. The truth is they hate it. For, as one Congressman puts it: 'The day before you choose your postmaster, you have ten friendly supplicants and sycophants. The day after, you have nine violent critics--and one ingrate...
...truth is that it is not. In fact, all around the country shrewd administrators understand that demands for Community Control which sound radical and revolutionary can also be wise administrative practice. McGeorge Bundy, for example, moved quickly in this direction in his recommendations for New York City schools (though his approach was severely limited in many respects...
...aesthetic questions, moral questions, political questions, philosophical questions. She alludes to the parable of Plato's cave and the way in which people experience the world through images rather than reality--"humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still revelling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth"--and argues that the nature of photographic images fundamentally changes the perception and experience of reality, changes the cave itself...
...Sontag, photography rests on uncertain aesthetic premises; it contains a fundamental "confusion about truth and beauty." Some photographers, like Weston, exalt photography as a better way of seeing, while others, like Robert Frank, see it as a chance to offer a view of life as it really is, to offer, quite literally, a slice of life. Photography remains in a kind of limbo--unable to oin with painting in transcending subject to pass into total abstraction, unable to share the capacity of films and novels to capture life's motion...
...that the photographic experience is a surface experience that cannot convey real knowledge, cannot convey real understanding. She objects to the way in which "the photographer's approach. . . is unsystematic, indeed anti-systematic." And well it may be, but systematic thinking and intellectual rigor is but one form of truth. Photography--with its episodic glimpses, its focus on a single image in a world that is blurred and rushing past--presents another form of truth, different from rational truth but also valid...