Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style hat. As she stirs to leave the bed after a discreet blackout, Robert asks the girl where she is going. "Barcelona," she replies for one of the dozens of explosive one-word and one-line laughs that punctuate the show. It is not a cop-out but a truism that in the end Robert discovers that these casual liaisons are a paradise of emptiness that leave him less than alive. His married friends have been his substitute for life, and he decides he had better enter wedlock with all its unholy terrors...
When the framers of the Bill of Rights guaranteed every U.S. defendant the right to an "impartial jury," they underscored a truism of human affairs-that a people's respect for law depends largely on the law's respect for them. It is an equal truism of U.S. life that nearly all black defendants are tried by white juries, a fact that fuels black suspicion of "white...