Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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True, true, true. Your article on youth crime rang with truth. I myself was a victim of an assault by a 14-year-old. Surprisingly, he was set free, because it was a "first offense...
...that session. When Begin said he wanted to talk about the Palestinians, the President smilingly interjected, "Now you've got a chance to make some really big news." The two men lavished praise on each other at a White House working dinner. Carter called Begin "a man of truth and quiet dignity." The Premier answered that his host was "a great friend of humanity" and later said he had a "good heart"-the highest of praises, according to the teaching of post-Talmudic sages in the Pirkei Avot (Sayings of the Fathers...
...Life is unfair," John Kennedy observed at a press conference one day in 1962. The thought had a certain stoic grace about it: its truth was brutally confirmed the following year in Dallas. Life is unfair. Kennedy was talking about citizens' military obligations, about the restive Army reservists who were being held on active duty even after the Berlin crisis had subsided. Now Jimmy Carter has brought up the unfairness doctrine to explain his policy on abortion. Somehow the dictum comes out this time with a mean-spirited edge, like something from the lips of Dickens' Mr. Podsnap...
...some unsettling questions that most social theorists shy away from: Is it possible that social classes reflect genetic differences? Do the upper classes gradually accumulate a separate and superior gene pool? After stating that the idea has "plausibility," Wilson goes on to say there is "little evidence" of its truth: culture moves too fast, and even the 2,000-year-old castes of India are not genetically different in any measurable way. Still, Wilson believes there is a "loose correlation of some of the genetically determined traits with success." Such beliefs worry many readers, so Wilson often devotes himself...
...Take two aspirins and call me in the morning." Those familiar words, spoken as often by jesting laymen these days as by doctors, still contain more than a grain of truth. Some 75 years after its introduction, aspirin remains the world's leading painkiller, used for easing aches of every type, from headache to hangover, arthritis to athlete's elbow...