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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, the University should not shy away from sponsoring forums on controversial subjects; to do that would be to abandon its duty to encourage the pursuit of knowledge and truth. As an opinion piece in yesterday's Crimson asserted, "Harvard's role isn't to make people comfortable; it's to foster critical thinking and dialogue...

Author: By Lori E. Fein, | Title: Don't Legitimate Propaganda | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...true Harvard, said William James [a Harvard graduate himself], `is the invisible Harvard in the souls of her more truth-seeking and independent and often very solitary sons.' This was an exact description of his Harvard. When it became a piety--a chesty motto suitable for fundraising or for framing on a new common-room wall--the golden age was over...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: The Case Against Club Harvard | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

There was truth as well as justice in the theme of her famous signature ballad, J'ai Deux Amours ("I have two loves,/ My country and Paris . . ."). The French music hall made her a star; the spirit of American jazz made her a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Beauty | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...ethics, and the incoming class is treated with unaccustomed humanity. "Demanding but not demeaning" is the cadre's new motto. Only the school prayer goes on as before: "Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Point Blank | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Those who favor randomization point to the stereotypes of some of the houses as evidence of the lack of diversity produced by the present system, but the stereotypes of the houses--like all stereotypes--contain only a grain of truth...

Author: By James C. Harmon, | Title: Choice Is the Best Policy | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

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