Word: untruth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correspondent for the Times and author of a book entitled War Between Russia and China, he responded with a blistering attack. "Louis is a longstanding and experienced KGB agent," Salisbury charges in a 14-page "dissenting introduction," and his creation "is a book of spurious content, dubious logic, flagrant untruth . . . What confronts us is political perversity seldom seen." But because of Louis' position, Salisbury adds, his tract "commands our attention...
...facts, however, speak differently. Pressed by the assembled reporters, he admitted that he was called by Eilberg. He added, however, he had talked to Bell before his telephone conversation with Eilberg. Another untruth. Bell has repeatedly told reporters that he had discussed the Marston case with the president three or four days after the Eilberg call...
...guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated 1807. In time. Brown took loudly to calling Plimpton a "tiger," an example of untruth in advertising...
...mythical radio turns to tragedy. A man is shot down by guards as he tries to pass the cheering news to a group of Jews bound for a concentration camp. In an attempt to redeem himself, Jacob confesses his deception. The letdown causes his best friend to hang himself. Untruth and truth-both come to seem equally false to Jacob...
...Wyatt Emmerich's April 11th review of Richard Dawkins's book, The Selfish Gene, is a masterpiece, even for The Crimson, of inaccuracy, purposeful misinterpretation, and downright untruth. Emmerich shows a profound ignorance of the book, evolutionary theory in general, and the aims and structures of the "sociobiological" camp...