Word: untruthful
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...Communist guerrillas who defected because of the revelations about Be report discontent and disillusion among those who heard of Be's miraculous emergence. "The soldiers will fight very hard for an ideal," says Nguyen Va Ba, "but Be's being alive shows that the ideal has untruth in it, which makes it harder for them to fight...
...more than Ben-Gurion could take. "He is a disgrace to the people and the nation," announced the old man. "He does not know how to distinguish between truth and untruth. He should be fired." And, at the age of 80, Ben-Gurion tried to see to it that he was. After being rebuffed in his attempts by the laborite Mapai Party, which he had founded, B-G rallied his old friends around him to form a new political party and set out to defeat Eshkol in the 1965 parliamentary elections. Even with Dayan at his side...
...note that the Crimson of December 5 suggests that I "advised the administration against making concessions to FSM," while I was a professor at Berkeley. This statement is a total and complete untruth. My general position on the matter which I stated on a number of occasions publicly at Academic Senate meetings and in one case at a talk to the Graduating Coordinating Committee of FSM was reported by the California Monthly as follows...
...Word Magic." To many scholars, all slogans are bad slogans. George Mowry, dean of social sciences at U.C.L.A., argues that they "compress a lot of truth into what is basically an untruth." Indeed, for the majority of voters not inclined to analyze issues for themselves, slogans are a welcome substitute for logical argument. "Most people would rather die than think," says Bertrand Russell. "In fact, some do." Russell's own ban-the-bomb marchers, mindlessly chanting "Better Red than dead," prove his point...
...been created. At the book's end, Brad Tolliver is left in a convulsion of romantic agony, thinking, in the usual important italics, "There is no country but the heart." This seems to be a mere cliché until examination proves it something less than that-an untruth. Surely if Flood has any solid theme, it is that the physical shape of a loved object-in this case, Fiddlersburg-is important, that its loss is irrevocable, and that the spirit cannot make do without the flesh. In an understanding of this lies one of the differences between tragedy...