Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perimeter wall. While waiting you could drum up some interesting slice-of-life stories by roaming the balconies. But after a while the value of those "mood of Democratic America as seen through the loge section of Madison Square Garden" pieces starts to wane. Of course, there is some truth to the argument that policy-making is conducted strictly in the dingy rooms in the adjacent Statler. But the policy makers have never been known to let reporters into their private sessions. A reporter's life and death at a convention revolves around his ability to get to the floor...
Everything said about New York City is true, but it is almost always an incomplete truth, like, say, describing Tolstoy as a religious nut. By the standards of Knoxville, Tenn., or St. Paul, Minn., New York's streets are filthy and sometimes dangerous-though among the six largest cities, only Los Angeles has a lower murder rate. Some visitors may be tempted to commit a mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then...
Though long trials can produce too much information for a rational truth-seeking process, few experts see any solution. Judges can try to limit the lawyers, but Frank Raichle, a leading New York State litigator, points out that "all kinds of questions come up during a trial -the suppression of evidence, improper evidence before the jury, constitutional rights. The issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy...
Total Amateur. But when she allows herself to look back on how things were during the three years it took to write Ordinary People, cleverness and common sense struggle with a kind of Erma Bombeck rue. "Nobody had any underwear," she recollects. "Truth to tell, my family is very tolerant. But some days I'd look at the house and think it was a mess and say to myself 'Why are you doing this?' " She wrote in the mornings when the house emptied, never at night. And rarely in the summer because the boys were...
...been said that The John Birch Society is constantly tearing down, always "anti," never "pro." But nothing could be further from the truth. What we are for is more important than what we are against. It is because of our spirited desire for less government and a better world that we are fighting the Communists so fiercely. We are named for Captain John Birch, who "personified everything that the Communists hate...He lived and worked and fought and died, always literally giving the best that was in him, to strengthen those principles and beliefs which had brought human evolution...