Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excerpts from Djilas' book. Sample: "the totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class [i.e., the ruling Communist oligarchy] which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke from under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." Snapped Djilas: "I wrote the truth, from the first word to the last." The judges ordered the press and public removed from the courtroom. Warned Defendant Djilas: "If the proceedings of this trial are held in secrecy, and if the public and press are excluded, I will not say a single word...
That night Prime Minister Bandaranaike had a private chat with his Education Minister, and the next morning Dahanayake took the only way out: he baldly denied that the incident had taken place. "There is no truth," he said, "in reports that I refused to see the U.S. Ambassador." Ceylonese, who know a rude minister from an earnest ambassador, were beginning to see some good in Mr. Gluck...
...just been swept out of Egypt in a religious counterrevolution. Freud, who regarded religion as a "universal obsessional neurosis," was at pains to explain the acceptance of Moses and of his one God in terms of the "father figure." Comments Author Jones: "Freud had always asserted the psychological truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with real unconscious conflicts present in everyone. In this book he laid special stress on the historical truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with the unconscious memory of actual happenings." The intriguing point (not acknowledged by Loyalist Jones) about Freud...
...Gradual Truth. Conservative Catholics have argued that the new method might teach children harmful "speculative tendencies." Protested one pamphlet: "Give the children the proper words. Later they will understand." The Holy Office finally agreed: "There cannot be gradual teaching of the truth...
...novel? Is it a nightmare? Is it Superman-in the comic-strip or the Nietzschean version? During the book's opening passages-for 300 or 400 pages, that is-the reader cannot be sure. Then the truth emerges: Author Ayn Rand, a sort of literary Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, is smashing the world with half a million words in order to rebuild it according to her own philosophy. And that philosophy must be read to be disbelieved...