Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the truth is that throughout the consideration of this proposal in Subcommittee and Committee over the past year there has been a serious lack of continuing communication between the Administration and the developers of the legislation. Perhaps this is understandable in view of the inexperience of some of the new, young Administration staff people who have been responsible for liaison on this issue...
...ambition was to become Chief of Naval Operations, but his plans were interrupted last March by his Commander in Chief. Since Turner remains in the Navy, he is accused by critics in the CIA of using the intelligence post as a steppingstone to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The truth is, he probably could have found a safer route...
Carter got himself in trouble by making two serious mistakes. Several times he told less than the truth about his role in expediting the removal of Marston. Then, after admitting he was asked to fire Marston by one of the prosecutor's targets of investigation, Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg of Pennsylvania, Carter did it anyway...
Ginsberg now sees LSD as one of the catalysts that raised his consciousness. "LSD shows you more of what isn't there, and having realized that there are many perceptions of reality, there's no more urgency to explore any one reality like it's the answer, the truth. Everyone's always looking for the truth. The truth is there is no truth. Everything's constantly changing, and the pain from existence seems to come from clinging to some concept of truth or reference point...
Outsiders have always been eager to offer advice on the proper raising of children. But now, Lasch argues, the advisors seek a new kind of legitimacy. They claim to speak as scientists wielding truth, rather than as moralists, as detached rationalists rather than mothers-in-law. By translating social problems into a "religion of health," the experts step righteously into realms of family affairs once considered private and intimate. The social scientist treats his subjects as a doctor would his patients...