Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on the new nonsense was inevitable. When scientists realize that there are people who do not necessarily see things the way they do, they strike back by calling them irrational. When will they finally admit that they do not have a monopoly on the truth...
...wouldn't dream of evaluating the sincerity of Smut Dealer Larry Flynt's conversion to being a Hustler for the Lord [Dec. 5]. But if Flynt has truly become a devotee of the "Big Boy upstairs," all I can say is that there must be some truth in the saying "miracles never cease...
...year-old organization that was once widely admired and imitated as a seemingly successful program for rehabilitating alcoholics and drug addicts. Dederich established a nononsense, self-help program that included the "game," a rugged encounter session in which participants acted out their inmost hostilities. Learning the truth about themselves supposedly helped them stay off drugs or booze. But in recent years, Dederich has had more grandiose ambitions and transformed Synanon into a religious cult with himself as high priest and prophet. It now attracts fewer addicts and more middle-class eccentrics in search of new adventures in living...
Sontag is uneasy about the entire role of "concerned" photography. Holocaust victims, matchstick Biafran children, burnt Vietnamese-seen as products in the camera's neutral eye, she argues, these images of suffering become analgesic; they first stimulate the moral sense, then dull it by overload. There is a truth to that, but not the whole truth. No matter what one may say against the continual voyeurism of photography, the likelihood is that it played as great a role in finishing the Viet Nam War as the printed word did. (One main reason why civilians in England could tolerate...
...ancient Greeks believed that lightning bolts were hurled from the heavens by a wrathful Zeus. Modern science has shown that the bolts are actually great electrical discharges between clouds and earth. A new theory by a Johns Hop kins scientist indicates that there might be some truth in the old myth after all. At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco last week, Physicist James W. Follin Jr. of Johns Hopkins University theorized that lightning is probably triggered by cosmic rays from deep space...