Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists, he said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification. No one!" With equal force, Khrushchev ruled out any attempt to unite the 54 million West Germans with 17 million East Germans by free elections (that would mean, he said, that "the majority, not truth, would triumph...
...Whatever truth there may be in such explanations, the fantasies of the television tube are perhaps most truly understood as shadows of a larger drama. The western is really the American morality play, in which Good and Evil, Spirit and Nature, Christian and Pagan fight to the finish on the vast stage of the unbroken prairie. The hero is a Galahad with a six-gun, a Perseus of the purple sage. In his saddlebags he carries a new mythology, an American Odyssey that is waiting for its Homer. And the theme of the epic, hidden beneath the circus glitter...
...Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have to have prices stable over a period of time. They make labor contracts that run for years, buy raw materials on contracts that...
...Mountolive will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design. The book ends with a rise of tension as Nessim's brother, a naive savage armed with a bullwhip and a Messianic impulse, is brutally slain. Faithful to his belief that "truth is what most contradicts itself," Author Durrell fails to be explicit about the murderer. It may be Nessim, Justine, or even agents of King Farouk's lethargic government. Presumably, this cliffhanger conclusion will be solved in Clea, the last volume of the quartet, scheduled for publication next year...
...Mistress (Japanese). A poignant restatement of the timeless truth that a social problem is a moral problem, which can only have a religious solution...