Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fell with mortal wounds. He told of retreat. A young Southerner going down the slope walked backward so he would not be hit in the back. Robert E. Lee met his men with tears in his eyes to tell them it was his fault. "He pretty much told the truth," said Carter, pondering the lapses of judgment that are now attributed to Lee, who was almost superhuman in all other ways, in most other places...
...Babel. George (John Lithgow), May (Deborah May) and Jerry (Treat Williams) open an elocution school in Hollywood to prep silent stars for the talkies. Jerry riffles through people like a deck of cards, May has the patience of Florence Nightingale, and George is purer than the infancy of truth and madder than his true love (Julia Duffy). Through simple unpollutable honesty, George becomes chief of staff to a manic-depressive studio mogul, Herman Glogauer. George S. Irving plays this role as if he were a Yiddish Mussolini...
...heyday of the Washington column, Lippmann embodied the word pundit. He made colossal misjudgments but never lacked audacity. As a young man, back in 1915, he defined his craft ("You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think") and admonished political writers: "The truth is you're afraid to be wrong. And so you put on these airs and use these established phrases ... You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions...
...highly regarded by the Washington press corps) dropped Evans and Novak because, in Editor Day's words, "we want to be responsible for the authenticity of things presented as fact." In Carter country, Editor Hal Gulliver of the Atlanta Constitution dropped William Safire for ignoring fact and truth while writing constantly in "the context of convoluted conspiracy...
...Time for Truth, Simon...