Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state in your April 1 Press section, in the course of a friendly and otherwise accurate reference to my book, What I Said About the Press, that there were "few magazine comments on the book." Reviews have been published in Truth, the Spectator, the Listener, the New Statesman and Nation, Tribune, Time &Tide, Candour, the Economist and the Times Literary Supplement...
While the President's answer was a classic solution to a delicate problem, it was also the truth. Bluff Edgar Eisenhower, a popular and respected member of Tacoma's legal community, loves to recall how he and Dwight (two years younger) used to fight "for the sheer joy of slugging one another." In fact, he still boasts that he can lick young Dwight any time, any place-a statement that Ike heartily denies...
...mild-mannered, intelligent architect. Nine (Joseph Sweeney) is a cranky old pensioner, but smart. Ten (Ed Begley) runs a string of garages and spits like a battery syringe whenever the subject of race comes up. Twelve (Robert Webber) is an adman who can't distinguish the truth from a slogan...
...editors will plead the truth of their assertion if and when the case comes to trial, which will certainly not be this year. Such cases have been known to take three years to come to trial because of court congestion...
...Contradict yourself, in order to live. You must remain broken up," wrote Lewis in 1917. His contempt for the sham he felt in Western Society led to, "Self. Self. One must rescue that sanity. Truth, duty--are insanity." And again, from the mouth of one of his characters, "Expect nothing out of my mouth, therefore, that has a pleasant sound. Look for nothing but descriptions out of a vision of a person who has given up hoping for Man, who is scrupulous and just, if only out of contempt for those who are so much the contrary...