Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, you ask, does a University which has as its motto "Veritas" or "Truth" put up with an object which in and of itself embodies three patent falsehoods? Because, dear friends, the real motto of Harvard is "Appearances." There is supposed to be some kind of statue languishing in a central place on every Ivy league campus so that tourists will have something to pose in front of and students will have something to deface. Harvard was founded by an act of the Massachusetts colonia; legislature, but it seized upon John Harvard as a convenient norminal founder, and used...
...release the facts to newspaers because they fear the opinions that might develop. The dispassionate observer might conclude that neither the newspaper nor the dean has the full picutre--or all the facts--and that only by combining these two views can something within spitting distance of the truth emerge...
...objectivity, like perfection, is a fantasy worth pursuing, a goal that is not only noble, but practical. The more nearly objective, or more nearly perfect, his or her reporting is, the more it will be relied upon--by readers who are spending their money in search of, if not truth, at least trustworthy information. The alternative--slanting the news to benefit one group, no matter how morally righteous--may be personally satisfying at times, but likely to be self-defeating in the long...
With the crisis over, Begin looked forward to a happier event: his 65th-birth-day celebration later in the week, at which he was to host an open house for hundreds of relatives, friends and colleagues. In truth, he had a lot to celebrate. His health was greatly improved following an attack last June of pericarditis, an inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart. Moreover, his political popularity appeared to be rising again; the hopes of the Israeli public had clearly been buoyed by news of the Camp David summit...
Notwithstanding Paul's earnest exhortation, his funeral was hardly over before outside pressure groups began agitating over the sort of man who should become the next Pope. The ultraconservative religious movement Civilta Cristiana plastered Rome with posters demanding "a preacher of crystal-clear doctrine and a custodian of truth against the current heresy." Other right-wingers who follow France's semischismatic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre drew up a broadside linking certain papabili (possible Popes) with Freemasonry. At the other end of the ideological spectrum, the U.S.-based Committee for the Responsible Election of the Pope issued in Rome...