Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOWARD JARVIS, tax-revolt crusader: Alexander Haig, for his understanding of Soviet and European military capabilities; William Clements the new Governor of Texas, for his program to try to rebuild free enterprise in his state; William Simon for his important book, A Time for Truth; and Comedian George Burns,, who at 83 is proving that all of the sugar in life is in the bottom...
LOUIS MASOTTI, political scientist (Northwestern): Ralph Nader. Recalls, product guarantees, truth in packaging, truth in lending, almost all these things were a spillover of the challenge of this one person. Another is Barry Commoner. He has raised our consciousness about the environment and ecological system. I might have chosen Jerry Brown, if he had turned out to be more consistent and positive...
...decided to retire from retirement. Last week's fight at Benidorm, in which he was awarded five ears and a tail, will be followed by 60 more in Spain and Latin America; he may earn $4 million but, more important, he can relive those moments of truth...
...comedian who dies backstage at the end of his act while the audience continues to applaud, thinking he is still in the giant clown's shoes they see protruding from beneath the curtain. It is a good lie, one of the best, but is there any truth to it? "All my stories are basically honest," he answers. "But from then on you're in show business...
...many strange and illuminating episodes in Janet Frame's tenth novel concerns an Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong...