Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Kennedy has been dead for more than 13 years and Martin Luther King Jr. for nearly nine; yet many Americans still wonder if the full truth has been told about their assassinations. Last week the House of Representatives voted 237 to 164 to continue still another investigation of the deaths-but for only two months at this point. The main reason for the restriction is an abrasive and aggressive man named Richard A. Sprague...
Still, the Congressmen could not risk disbanding the committee altogether: they might be accused some day of somehow taking part in a conspiracy to cover up the truth. The House ordered the committee to come up with a "realistic budget" in two months' time and to produce evidence that the investigation might lead somewhere...
...unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate to fall "into the hands of a district attorney more concerned with his own ambitions than with truth and justice...
Modern theologians have been so overwhelmed by the onslaught of secular philosophies, Henry believes, that they have retreated into various forms of subjectivism to protect their claims of truth. One of Henry's major targets is the late Karl Earth, who thought that God could be known only through a mortal's inner decision and obedience. The result of such Christian existentialism has not been the protection of faith, Henry argues, but the "suicide of theology...
...waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland railroad tracks--while perhaps not elegantly presented--are still awesome. To look for some deep meaning in a book like this seems absurd; what it presents is not a search for truth, but a portrayal of the more basic pursuit of survival...