Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ring of Truth. However naive the cumbersome plots may seem to more sophisticated readers, confession editors argue that they faithfully reflect their audience's view of society. Unlike white-collar women, the Macfadden people explain, Wage-Town women "seem to see all men as more powerful figures: dominant, independent, sexually active and demanding, and, over all, as more mature than women." Says Editor Dorrance: "In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief. In our magazine they're the hero and heroine. We have no comic figures. Women, after all. have little...
...actual fact, admits one Macfadden editor, so many changes are made in rewrite that "the confessor would not recognize her own confession." Most editors are less intent on publishing fact than on inserting enough fiction to give their stories the ring of truth; often a single story is patched together from unrelated episodes in newspaper clips or readers' suggestions. The magazines rely heavily on free-lance contributors (top price: 5? a word), who have a free rein. Most writers and editors are women. Says True Confessions (circ. 1,339,922) Editor Florence Schetty: "Even confessions stories by men somehow...
...Doctor's Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw takes some roundhouse swings at the medical profession. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of the play makes his blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play...
...conclusions originate from his insistence upon the necessity of tranquility for self-knowledge. This state implies the absence of escapes, what the author calls "veils over reality." Politics is one such veil. A mere play of causes and effects, says Krishnamurti, politics is absorbed in externalities which hide the truth from man, that truth which is beyond cause and effect. Worry is also a veil, because it occupies people's minds, spares them from discovering themselves. Also, claims the author, "one can truly communicate only when there is aloneness. Aloneness is the purgation of all motives, of all pursuits...
...brand-new $15 million Sheraton Hotel. Suddenly Perle froze, hand outstretched. Facing her: Perle's arch-rival in the hostessing game, elegantly gowned and bejeweled Gwen Cafritz. Perle wheeled, looked wildly around for an escape route just as an alert photographer recorded this historic moment of truth (see cut) for posterity. Gwen nervously shifted her white mink stole, swung her evening bag against an onlooker. The bag flew open and coins, handkerchief and vanity poured to the floor. "Isn't this what would happen when I come to a Perle Mesta party?" Gwen remarked, scooping up the debris...