Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the beef? Does it hurt our pride to have the hypocritical Commies tell us the truth about our shortcomings...
...Convention-Eve Scramble. On convention eve, Averell Harriman declared a "free and open convention," added (with complete truth): "It is a fiction that I am going to dominate the convention." At the same time, realizing that De Sapio & Co. could not be persuaded to accept Finletter, Harriman switched his major effort to Thomas Murray, onetime Atomic Energy commissioner, and generally classified as a little less to the Democratic left than Tom Finletter...
Petty Chiseling. At week's end some of Herb Stempel's friends and a maid who had once worked for the family told newsmen that they could testify to the truth of Herb's claims. Herb, they said, had told them well in advance of his appearances on the show just which questions he would answer, which he would miss. Eventually a jury may decide whether or not Stempel is telling the truth. But the kind of blatant crookedness charged in Stempel's story was not the only issue...
Trying to salvage the one good thing left to him-his daughter Monica's love-Claverton tells her the truth about himself and finds that "if a man has one person to whom he is willing to confess everything, then he loves that person, and his love will save him." As a serene Claverton goes off to die under a beech tree-faintly echoing Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus-he wears his fate like a royal robe: "I feel at peace now. It is the peace that ensues upon contrition when contrition ensues upon knowledge of the truth...
...haunt the theater of history. Blame, guilt, hatred, self-accusation and self-aggrandizement taint most such accounts of revolution. Alan Moorehead's book is different. It is a clear-eyed rendering by an expert reviewer who makes the drama come alive again and establishes some new areas of truth. The ideological burdens the book carries belong to the narrative, not the narrator, and it contains no haunted hindsights...