Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York would finally admit that the inquiry into the Attica massacre was biased, that the prosecution was "one-sided" in taking out 42 indictments on 62 inmates for 1289 alleged crimes and only one indictment on a state trooper. It took almost four and a half years for the truth to emerge: that, according to the Meyer report, state troopers committed "criminal acts of brutality to inmates," that troopers and corrections officers failed to act as courageously and legally as Rockefeller implied when he praised them for doing "a superb job," and that Rockefeller's appointment of state police...
...doesn't get the sense that the Beales' "performances" in any way belie their inner reality. Their performances are the reality--the personas they adopt, the way in which they wish to be perceived and the manner in which they construe their relationship all mesh to form the "truth" of their lives...
...original sources of these conflicts have become obscured to such a degree that the truth is impenetrable. Each woman has her own version of the past. Edie refers to one suitor who was twenty years her junior, and reiterates her charge that Edith scared him away. Edith on the other hand claims, at a moment when Edie is out of the room, that the man said of her daughter: "How can a woman with such a beautiful voice be so cold in person?" and for this reason the mother suggested that he not come back to visit them...
...interview was going smoothly until his interviewer made a confession. 'Son,' he said, 'I've had to pass you over for a man I exchanged words with on a street corner and whom I haven't seen since. The truth is Joe, he's been to college...
...third objective to force retrenchments and defense budget reductions is that our friends and allies would be threatened. There is a large element of truth in this. But the real answer to this objection is not to make a tour d'horizon, asking, "What will happen to Western Europe?" "What will Japan do?" And so forth. The answer is: to make a rather different kind of argument--really, the complement to the argument up to this point: that we are caught in a web of domestic constraints and cannot meet ambitious and demanding defense objectives. We now must consider...