Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find...
...class. His self-described role is that of the actor, speaking for the various philosophers. For the instructor, the role of the believer yields to that of the impartial spokesman expounding the bits of wisdom and insight which each philosopher offers. The values of teaching many philosophical claims to truth thus take precedence over the teaching of the professor's own convictions...
...College relativism. Demos says that in Harvard's case 'Veritas means that we are committed to nothing." Yet even those members of the University who are "committed men," who, like Demos, do believe, often see the critical examination of ideas as the best method for arriving at truth. Reverend George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the the University, sees truth arising "from the friction of friendly minds." Thus the University becomes almost a playing field where issues of possibly eternal salvation and damnation are gentlemanly tossed around by polite opponents. The danger with this method, however, is clear. If University discussion...
...controversy over Zhivago implies a definite truth about the role of the dissenter in Russian society. The dissenter can "cheer slightly differently than his neighbors," Billington explained, but the role of the cheerleaders must be completely uniform. Pasternak, then, defied this uniformity in writing Zhivago...
...rate is higher among Christians than Jews, among Protestants than Catholics; for it was Christianity's natal entanglement with Greek philosophy that yielded the world its first major religion which claimed so purely cognitive an activity as theologizing as one of its most essential modes, and focused on the truth value of factual propositions. And it was Luther who proclaimed "the priesthood of all believers," declaring that each man had the right of genuine personal judgment before God on the most intimate matters relating to his soul. Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first...