Word: truthfully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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SIXTY YEARS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH (618 pp.)-Joseph F. Rinn-Truth Seeker...
...that the pro-Communist coup of February 1948 was a spontaneous uprising by the masses to thwart a reactionary conspiracy. Last week the well-worn lie, its purpose served, was discarded. With Czechoslovakia's police state well entrenched, Deputy Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger* could afford to tell the truth: "Plans for a new people's democratic Czechoslovakia were made in Moscow" even before World War II ended. "Stalin in the Kremlin, with ingenious foresight, drew the outlines of a new Czechoslovakia, as well as of a brotherly new Poland, on the map of central Europe. A new government...
Critics may know what readers should read, but it is the booksellers who are sure they know what readers want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore...
There will always be a group of people who are vested with some slight bit of authority who are afraid of the truth, who are afraid of criticism. The threat to your Radcliffe reporter is nothing new. Nor is your striking back with you best weapon of publicity anything new. But what all this does show is that no newspaper, run on the principles taught by democracy, can be anything if it is not allowed to get at the truth and print...
...airplane and the bomb, the individual has come to count less and less. Defending Norman Mailer's book, "The Naked and the Dead," which in no sense justified war, Levin asserted that the only real relationship between war and literature has been and should continue to be the truth...