Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decorum, schoolboy excuses about absence, and fears of their ability to give me "what you want." These charades wouldn't help us to face our real differences, and that was precisely their point--to protect us from the embarrassment of assuming equality and then having to confront the sociological truth...
...truth emerged anyway in essays they wrote about their jobs. A man's fifty years would flow by on two sides of a page...
...truth seeker is Tom Burnam, an English professor at Portland State University in Oregon, and his compendium is the best antidote to nonsense since H.L. Mencken hung up his spites. "I believe," says Burnam in his introduction to The Dictionary of Misinformation, "that when we fall it's not because our reasoning faculties have tripped us; it's because of the things we know that just aren...
...Burnam is more utilitarian than American Credo and is barely winged by Benchley, it is because his compendium contains more truth and less malice than its predecessors. The Dictionary of Misinformation misleads only once -in its title. Information is all that the volume contains: enough to keep the canny reader collecting bar bets for the rest of the year. Stefan Kanfer
While the world responded with outrage, and protests spread throughout Europe in response to the executions in Spain, the news of executions in Iran have received almost no press attention. It is time that the American people heard the truth about the situation in Iran. We are also outraged at the execution of Ms. Manijeh Ashrafzadeh Kermani, the first Iranian woman to be executed by firing squad under the present regime...