Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican territory, and pressed two buttons to start the transmission. Then he spoke the first words to be broadcast: "Hearken, ye people from afar (Isaias 49:1) let all give ear. From the Vatican Radio's new station, above which rises high and victorious the cross, symbol of truth and charity, 'our mouth is open to you' (2 Corinthians...
...States, they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...
Just how much truth lies behind all the scandalmongering is hard to ascertain. On the Cooney affair, the bi-partisan state Law Enforcement Council came to no significant conclusion. The Republican majority found Meyner "derelict" in his duty; the Democratic minority exonerated him completely. It might be relevant to point out, however, that Meyner was elected partially as a reform governor, that he conducted a careful investigation of the Hoffman case (former G.O.P. governor Harold G. Hoffman stole some $300,000 from the state), and that under his administration the Joe Adonises and the Frank Ericksons seem to have disappeared...
André Malraux once defined the task of modern man as filling the void left by the 19th century's loss of faith. He himself has recently retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara...
Burbling along in his low-decibel way, Professor Parkinson slyly camouflages the fact that there is as much truth as spoof in his pseudo-scientifically stated findings. Finally, he is as difficult to laugh off as he is easy to laugh with. Author Parkinson promises to make further researches into executive manners. One project: he would like to trace the significance of "the illegibility of signatures, the attempt being made to fix the point in a successful executive career at which the handwriting becomes meaningless even to the executive himself...