Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter challenged Ford to explain his income tax "discrepancies" and what he meant by saying that the people of Eastern Europe are not under Soviet domination. "Mr. Ford is hiding from the American people," charged Carter. "I call upon the American people to force Ford to tell the truth." "My God," moaned one newsman, "Ford is bleeding from every pore and Carter is going after more blood...
...were kids," O'Neill says he dislikes the John Birch Society although "a lot of the things they said are coming true." During the day I spent with him his only unsolicited comment on national politics concerned Earl Butz: "He shouldn't have resigned, he was only telling the truth...
WHILE HE RILES against the Boston press as "maggots," he likes reporters and blames only editors for his troubles. "Nobody wants to print the fuckin' truth," he says. Although they had never met, Dapper had an ongoing feud with the elegant Boston Globe columnist, the late George Frazier '32. "He's where he belongs," O'Neil says. "I pissed on his grave one night...sure, I was sober.... He was a fag with that fuckin' flower...
Celine, his biographer asserts, was an inveterate pessimist who conceived of truth as "a willingness to confront the worst without flinching." Although the novelist tirelessly seeks beauty in the bodies of women and the abstract movement of dance, a vision of catastrophe always prevails. For Celine, the ultimate truth was death, and the title of his first novel aptly describes the desolate trend of his written as a whole; it is A Journey to the End of the Night...
READING THIS BOOK is like walking in the dead leaves of an exotic and melancholy autumn. We turn up wet, brown mush, corpses, earthworms, faded brilliance and potential fertility. What we find is sometimes unrecognizable, as is the truth about Marquez' general. His past is buried under so many falsehoods of his own and others' making that all we know of him is the myth...