Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal ideas that in this century persuaded universities throughout the country to allow their students more liberty of choice, ideas which have done far more to heighten the efficiency of individual education than the advocates of this oppressive new program are willing to concede. There is not an absolute truth, nor is there only one way to educate students. Fanatical Marxists say the core simply perpetuates bourgeois ideology, committed libertarians will scream Communist Indoctrination. Through the mist of this type of critical extremism, one can discern an interesting point. It would be better for all if a less rigid core...
...said snippy Journalist Anne Royall in the early 19th century. Her observation is hardly less true today. Only now it must be added that anyone with business in Washington faces little risk of poverty. The great company town on the Potomac is booming. Humorist Russell Baker may garnish the truth when he writes of suburban lawns "green with money." And admittedly not everybody rushed to get at the $13,000 Chinese vases when the new Neiman-Marcus store opened last November. But by the most telling measure?family income?Washington has fattened into the most affluent metropolis in the country...
...first conversation that Eilberg was himself under investigation, and said he did not recall any subsequent conversation with Baker about Eilberg. The contradiction led New York Times Columnist William Safire to draw a harsh conclusion last week: "Ben Civiletti or Tim Baker?one, not both?is telling the truth [and]deserves advancement, while the other ought to be receiving, rather than dishing out, criminal justice." That is an overstatement since there is nothing criminal about forgetting or misunderstanding a conversation, but the episode is at the least prima facie evidence of sloppy management at Justice...
Willie said integration would force the schools to adapt their goals to those of the parents of the new students. He predicted that "truth and honesty, as well as proficiency in communication and computation, would be included in the curriculum...
...should read Breslin. He's a foine ruddy Irish lad who latched onto that foine ruddy Irish pol Tip O'Neill to become the Giant Leprechaun who could set the truth free about Watergate...