Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comedy writer traded sighs for banter, nightingales for mockingbirds, antic humor for elegant wit. Benedick's first sniffy words to Beatrice-"What, my dear Lady Disdain-are you yet alive?"-could drop straight out of Congreve. As for their wearing their hearts on their fingernails, it is a truism that the pair of them-he all scorn for marriage, she all scorn for men-are so antagonistic for being so much alike. Fortunately, the dullards around them dream up one bright idea: they contrive that an eavesdropping Benedick shall hear that Beatrice absolutely dotes on him, that...
What's more, other scientists have abruptly rediscovered the ocean. Geographers and geophysicists now realize that most of the world's surface lies beneath the ocean, and can now recite glibly the truism that the bottom of the ocean is not as well known as the near side of the moon. Discoveries follow every voyage. Under the Pacific, oceanographers have found deep trenches, at least one of them big enough to contain seven Grand Canyons, and a 1,000-mile range of high mountains that no one knew existed until just one year...
...most Russians go to their mailbox or wait patiently in the midmorning kiosk queue for a copy of Pravda or Izvestia. Readers write the papers thousands of letters every week, usually complaining against some service or some minor bureaucrat. They have a private joke which has become a national truism: "In Pravda there is no information, in Izvestia there is no truth." At day's end, by long tradition, the reader hands his paper over to the neighbor on bathroom duty in the cooperative apartment house. Then, by almost unanimous agreement, Pravda and Izvestia come into their own: torn...
...truism of liberal democracy that a minority party should play the critic for the political drama. Yet even gadflies lose their sting when they run away from politics, sit dumbly as the majority perpetrates folly, or cry wolf long after the sheep have been killed. From now until 1960, Bowles maintains, the Deemocrats must persistently repudiate the Administration's blunders in foreign and domestic affairs with eloquence and determination, yet at the same time set forth constructive, intelligent, and fore-sighted alternatives...
...Louis, where the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by a 6-to-1 vote ringingly struck down Arkansas District Judge Harry J. Lemley's decision postponing integration in Little Rock until early 1961 (TIME, June 30). Arkansan Lemley had based his cooling-off decision on the truism that "popular opposition to integration" had led to "serious violence" in Little Rock...