Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Excommunication has been bad for business. Hubner and Gruson report that Swami Ham now wants to build a new community in Pennsylvania or New Jersey where one could ride out nuclear war, the AIDS epidemic and economic depression. He has learned a fundamental truth about the great river of being: one can never step into the same cash flow twice...
This University exists for one purpose--the search for truth. And as history shows, truth is not to be found in ideological rigidity, but in the flexibility of viewpoint and constant questioning of our assumptions that ultimately comes from diversity. Unless Harvard changes course, it will stagnate with a faculty ossified by background and academic standards. Only a school with a more visionary conception of its faculties and the role of minorities and women in them can claim to be the world's greatest university...
After digging through the rhetoric, the posturing, the lists of atrocities, there shines one fundamental truth regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict--the Israelis have a state, the Palestinians do not. Common sense would dictate that if there is ever to be peaceful coexistence, the national aspirations of the Palestinian people must be achieved. Palestinians, like the Israelis, deserve a homeland...
...Offend is a strong word. I'm bothered by the fact that the American people can't be told the simple truth -- the simple truth being that if we're going to get back our competitiveness, we have to decide what we're going to give up to get it back...
...cartoon are hectoring their middle-aged playwright son about the "need" for less of his satirical japery and for more plays of the kind they used to enjoy -- elegant talk, beautiful clothes, faintly risque hints of extramarital indiscretion. They want entertainment to affirm life, not scrutinize it. Having sampled truth, they prefer illusion. Atop the coffee table, looking innocuous yet posing a threat so potent that a grown daughter claims to hear it "ticking," is yet another of the son's kind of play. This one is overtly about the family, and he has come to ask their permission...