Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nams and their sponsors quickly protested that the U.S. was using the Korea issue as a pretext. Insofar as the U.S. was reluctant to give two U.N. votes to Hanoi, which for all practical purposes runs both Viet Nams, there was some truth to the charge. Even so, the refusal of the Communist and nonaligned countries to consider South Korea's application was nothing less than an egregious violation of the U.N.'s principle of universality...
...lied" became "I misspoke myself." And so on. Abuse of power is usually attended by abuse of language Viet Nam and Watergate, along with later revelations about the FBI and CIA, have encouraged a cynical, almost conspiratorial view that public words are intended to conceal, not to transmit the truth...
...Phyllis Executive Producer Ed Weinberger almost choked when CBS meddled with the pilot, in which the widowed Phyllis suspects her 17-year-old daughter of having an affair. Says Phyllis, as she ends an explanatory phone conversation with her daughter: "Nothing happened-if she is telling the truth." CBS cut the tag line...
...earlier volume, Exiles, Arlen was a prep school Telemachus, searching for the truth about his late parent, author of The Green Hat and other best-selling novels of the '20s, who had succumbed to writer's block, deprecation and obscurity. In that poignant volume the son could only compile small sorrows and acts of redemption. However acute, Exiles was the work of a miniaturist. In Passage to Ararat, Arlen set himself a near-Homeric task: the recovery of a forgotten people. To accomplish that mission he has performed a series of brilliancies: his research is irreproachable...
Plato banned poets from his republic, but it was a Pyrrhic triumph. Versifiers have a habit of outlasting politicians, and there is a nucleus of truth in Shelley's romantic declaration, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." From time to time the acknowledged legislators agree; for one brief, shining moment, Robert Frost even shared the inaugural platform with John F. Kennedy. That, however, was a greater victory for p.r. than for poetry. The recent snubbing of Solzhenitsyn by the White House suggests that things have returned to the Platonic state. Which is where they should be, according...