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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone can guess what happens to the film's three principals once Redford galvanizes himself. Boy gets horse. Girl gets story (and also ceases to be merely a pesky observer and becomes an impassioned participant in Sonny's adventure). The populace learns the truth about the evil capitalists and rallies to the side of the beleaguered rebels. Why, boy and girl even get each other, if briefly. It's a story as old as talkies-dating back to Frank Capra's populist comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Commanding the finest star cruiser around, Captain James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner, serial number SC 937-0176) spread Truth, Justice and The American Way through the galaxy. A native of Iowa, the good captain spent most of his time on the bridge of the Enterprise, barking orders, gazing in awe at some celestial wonder, outwitting foes, and saving the universe at least once every few months. He loved power, women, and most of all, his ship...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

Whose lecturing sparkles with wisdom and truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Christmas Reuelry | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

...groups. Characterizing sociobiology as revenant "Nazi Social Biology" represents a new level of invective in their polemics, and while the hyperbolic nature of their claims interferes with their widespread acceptance, nevertheless damage has been done in the creation of a lingering impression that there is a modest measure of truth to their accusation. Unfortunately, this has been abetted by sensationalistic treatments of the field by the media, and the lurid bandwagon effect of the intellectual fashion which rides on the back of this very genuine and profound scientific revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science for the People? | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

...fact that Science for the People has acted as it has is persuasive to many that there is at least an element of truth in their accusations. As there is no truth to them, what motivates SFTP? Their own ideology places emphasis on class interest--or, more simply, greed--as an explanation for why people behave as they do. But as we all know, but due to personal transgression are hesitant to say, there are are many other kinds of greed which we, especially in academic communities, are involved in: the greed for attention, the greed for self-righteousness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science for the People? | 12/12/1979 | See Source »

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