Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should newspapers be able to tell the truth when no other institution can?" David L. DeJean, associate editor of the Louisville Times and a Nieman fellow, said yesterday in the third lecture of the Nieman series being held at the Freshman Union...
Speaking to a group of about 15, DeJean said anyone who asks for the "objective truth" is asking for the impossible because truth is a relative term...
...hearing those words from a seven-year-old child, who has few inhibitions or fears to express himself and what he has been taught, as opposed to the adult who has been taught that he should feel guilty about his privileged position, puts the facts in their barest truth...
...amply demonstrated his contempt for a moviegoing audience. He borrows conceits from Bergman and Bunuel to show off his superficial knowledge of art-house movies. He strives for incoherence in the belief that pointless ambiguity can pass for an avant-garde aesthetic. He tries to arrive at dramatic truth by letting fuzzy conversations drag on interminably...
...controversy over the trial has continued for nearly 30 years. Who was telling the truth? Was it the serene and unfailingly courteous Hiss, who went to Lewisburg prison for 44 months and today, at age 73, still professes innocence? Or was it his brooding, tormented accuser, Whittaker Chambers, who died on his Maryland farm in 1961? Despite a dozen books and hundreds of articles about the case, many of them little more than briefs for one side or the other, the question has not been answered conclusively. Now Allen Weinstein, a respected historian at Smith College, has turned up previously...