Word: truth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandchildren. As existing religions gained their momentum in an age of ignorance, they still flourish in an age of misinformation. We live in our own little worlds of delusion, content with our processes of reasoning, which only consist of finding arguments for believing our own notions of truth. Huxley's New-Time Religion offers no heavenly crown, or elated promises of a glorious hereafter. His is but a religion of the real world, a religion where the individual would be free from the spiritual bondage of ignorance, fear and anxiety. Such a religion excluding the mythical world...
Prosecutor Wessel's strategy was to prove that the hoods had not told the truth, that their statements to police did not jibe with demonstrable facts and sworn testimony, and that in their similarity they clearly proved a conspiracy to thwart the law in a reasonable inquiry. In the early afternoon of Nov. 14, 1957, he contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop...
...often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate among such patients at Birmingham Accident Hospital in England's Midlands...
...Truth & Truisms. The chief pleasure of Ben Franklin during these years was journalism, and it is Franklin the journalist who dominates this book. There are the Addisonian "Silence Dogood" letters with their gently satiric barbs at Harvard College, bits of local gossip, humorous anecdotes, and a masterful and intricate essay on the value of a paper currency. In the profoundest sense, Franklin began a lifelong dialogue with his fellow Americans on their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always...
...best love story of the year, involving a grubby Paris background, an unstable German-American heroine and an even more unstable White Russian lover. Author Marsh spells out the simple truth that love is not always a pleasure...