Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what a president is. When we were young, we didn't really think much about him. He was just an old man with a soft voice who appeared on TV every night. Maybe our parents loved him or hated him and maybe we tried to imitate them, but in truth, we really didn't understand enough to care one way or the other...
...eighth psalm, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" President Lowell commissioned the inscription, overruling the original request of the Philosophy Department that the wall read, "Man is the measure of all things." It seems that Harvard, in planning the Knafel Center, is operating on the probable truth of the latter statement, but even if man is the measure of all things, there should be some sense of decent proportion...
...will not accomplish this end if the massive collective denial of the force of anti-black racism in its historic and contemporary forms continues, or worse yet, drives these facts from view altogether. It is possible to confront race and racism openly without succumbing to chauvinism and division. The truth and reconciliation hearings in South Africa constitute a shining example of the power of truth, even if dealing with the most awful of wounds, when spoken plainly, to open the door to healing. There are many folks who share the type of yearning expressed so eloquently by Skip Gates...
...weekly newsmagazine, TIME should set an example. When the facts and truth come forward, will they be on your cover also? HELEN STANTON Conway...
...evil essence. If its moment should prove to be right (a long shot, to be sure), the novel is good enough to become to domestic violence what Uncle Tom's Cabin was to slavery--a morally crystallizing act of propaganda that works because it has the ring of truth...