Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing a tall, intellectual head above all other candidates is Boris Pasternak. If one man, standing alone, can create a situation almost beyond their control, what hope have Communists against the rising legion of such courageous truth-seekers...
...reception to TIME'S reports of Latin America-whether ardent endorsement or furious disagreement-is always emphatic. TIME is apt to be denounced for printing a scandal of the reader's own country and praised by the same reader for exposing the unlovely truth in a neighboring land. TIME is eagerly sought as a window on the world, and denounced as an unwanted interventionist in foreign affairs. A story of impressive accomplishment in Brazil recently inspired President Juscelino Kubitschek to pull out his Portuguese-English dictionary and translate it personally for the local press. Another story...
Board Chairman Charles Silver advised at first that members forget about feuding with the Telegram, pointed out that there was much truth in Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen...
Softened Impact? Board Member Adams and John Marshall Principal Mrs. Florence Hornung charged that much of Allen's series was untrue, but refused to point out any specifics. Reporter Allen, a Briton whose application for U.S. citizenship is pending, stuck to his guns, defended the truth of his series and the propriety of his espionage. The Telegram stood by what it had printed. Said one editor: "We studied every article carefully and toned down all of them. Conditions are much worse than what we said." Superintendent John Theobald complained, but the Telegram planned to let Allen's expos...
...philosophy of history. This year's sophomores will get the philosophy during the last month of study, with collateral lectures by Morton White envisaged. Perhaps more of the year's time might be spent studying the philosophy of history. Being critically aware of the various claims to truth in history is as important for the concentrator as is reading Gibbon or Tacitus...