Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hitler, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb--the 1950s might seem carefree. Next to the 1960s and 1970s--which gave us race riots, Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that decade might seem like "Happy Days." But the truth is, no decade can fairly be termed "carefree...
...There's nothing in [the fiscal 1990 budget] that has a kernel of truth to it. This isn't balanced," Scaccia said, referring to the administration's supposed savings...
...experience authentic? Can the blues be legitimately sung for 2 1/2 hours with barely a glimmer of rage or pain? Would W.C. Handy and Fats Waller recognize anything except their own music? In truth, not much that is funky survives the onslaught of feathers and sequins. During I Can't Give You Anything but Love, a song about poverty, the stage is aswirl with what looks like gold and diamonds. The title number, which was wrenchingly performed this season in Ain't Misbehavin', is used here to bring on a choral stomp. Almost perversely, the blues, an art rooted...
...South Texas, suddenly pick up stakes and launch a cattle drive to Montana. Why? A friend has convinced them that there are big opportunities up north. What's more, says one, "I want to see that country before the bankers and lawyers all get it." But if the truth be told, the long trek -- initiated by an almost chance remark, beset by terrible hardships -- seems a futile whim...
...bedpans or monitor naptime in day-care centers. Existing state and local programs that foster community-service apprenticeships have been unable to tap the wellsprings of middle-class idealism; in 1987 almost all the 7,000 ! young adults enrolled in such programs came from low-income families. The sad truth is that any major commitment to national service requires either a pay scale much higher than McDonald's or the heavy hand of federal coercion...