Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that bigger is better, the writer chose to use the word "extensive" when in fact there is no justification for use of that word in this context. The misuse of that word may sell copy, but it prostitutes the function of a free press and crucifies communication of the truth...
...late Adlai Stevenson who said that public opinion is the sovereign of us all. I have always believed that the press has an enormous responsibility in helping to form a sound public opinion rooted in truth and fact and not in conjecture, innuendo and/or rumor. The writer of this article did little to form such public opinion. That was due in part to his being duped by double-speak by some and in part to the paucity of his individual investigative initiative, which went no deeper than to quote The Boston Phoenix. Such limitation suggests a less than maximal presence...
...house master to be so callously judgemental is a travesty. Who is Master Pfister--or North House Master J. Woodland Hastings or any other Harvard official--to decide what is garbage and what is not? The simple truth of the matter is that members of the Harvard community are being denied the right to speak out in a manner which they find effective...
With a Yale man in the White House and two others in key Cabinet posts, it is easy to assume that sociological evidence strongly buttresses this % collegiate pecking order. But, in truth, it is nearly impossible to calculate the value added by, say, a Princeton degree compared with one from a selective but less prestigious school. Totting up the comparative educational backgrounds of honorees listed in Who's Who may reveal something about those admitted to Princeton, but little about the quality of the experience once there. For how do you separate out the effects of an elite university from...
...truth, it was the Soviet Union that was in a very difficult and very unusual situation. Hungary, along with Poland, is the most enthusiastic East- bloc supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. Moreover, Gorbachev has pledged noninterference in East European affairs. At the same time, Gorbachev does not want to preside over the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Moscow's unease may in part explain the arrival of Soviet Politburo Member Yegor Ligachev in East Berlin last week. Moscow said the trip was long planned, but there was little doubt that the presence of Ligachev, a hard-liner known...