Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caution Harvard athletics: do not let the desire to win, the desire to bring talented athletes to Harvard, get in the way of the truth. Yes, tell ballplayers about Harvard, try to convince them to attend, but do not paint too rosy a picture. Those poor visitors must still eat in our dining halls, sleep on our couches, face those that are not all that impressed with football players. That's the way it is here and if they don't like it, they shouldn't come here...
...didn't understand the faculty's reaction to my truth-seeking. I wasn't a troublemaker, just a kid doing my job. As I saw it, I was no activist. At the time, I had a friend-the principal's daughter, no less-who was a veteran of several peace marches in the 1960s. To me, she was the exotic ideal I had once admired. But we weren't alike at all, I thought...
...Catholic Bishops' Conference has put forth a similar statement. Church officials are now urging ministers to attack the front from the pulpit and to ask parishioners to sign an "affirmation" that "the racial policies and activities of the National Front, and other similar bodies, are contrary to the truth of the Gospel...
Beard has in effect done for the elephant what the painter Francis Bacon -by no coincidence, the two men are close friends - did to the human body, but with the photographer's edge of documentary truth. It is unlikely that his images will save a single elephant. In a preface to his book The End of the Game (Doubleday; $9.95), whose new edition accompanies the show, Beard argues that the wild Africa of the 19th century is finished anyway, and is already beyond the ministrations of game policy: "It is too late to undo what has been done...
South Africa has refused to admit the truth about Biko's murder; but the lie is so blatant and so horrible that it has forced Western nations to take a stand against apartheid. The United States has expressed its outrage, as have other Western states. The inquest into Biko's death, and the circumstances surrounding it, have underlined once more the corruption of the South African regime. The entire system has been indicted once again...