Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth of the matter is you're just more comfortable without so many clothes on," Carroll E. Wood, professor of Biology, said yesterday. "Actually we haven't proven an exact biological explanation for spring fever. Perhaps it's a lingering primeval mating urge...
...philosopher Alain, who had exerted such a formative influence on her ideas about life fifteen years earlier, might have answered her plea with this definition of truth (paraphrased from his informal "doctrine" by Petrement): "an idea is not true by itself, independent of the thinker: it is not right to speak of a true idea but rather of true thoughts, of true men and women." Simone Weil lived this definition. And it may be that in the end she feld that only letting herself die could she continue to live her truth...
Whatever be the truth, it's a shame that this gourmand's delight and the namesake of this country's finest collegiate hockey tourney has to be subjected to such maltreatment. While the time for apology is long past, it's still not too late. Beans are forgiving legumes--they live for more than just revenge and motorcycles...
Like most Washington wisecracks, that new one contains an element of truth: in the early days of the Carter Administration, Charles L. Schultze, the newly appointed chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has indeed emerged as its most important economic policymaker. His clout was evident in the revised program to stimulate the economy that the Administration presented last week. As the changes were worked out, it was usually Schultze, darting in and out of the Oval Office, who explained and justified the revisions to Carter. The idea of giving businessmen a choice of a larger investment tax credit...
...everything; though it has some good correspondents spotted around the world, it relies a great deal on news services. The Post is a high-wire act. It is less deep, less thorough than the Times, but it has an air. As Bradlee says, "We don't print the truth. We print what we know, what people tell us. So we print lies...