Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Creighton goes to his volunteer work, he does not say he is from Harvard. "It's not that I'm ashamed--it's just that the fact I'm from Harvard is not relevant," he explains...
Like all major artists, Joseph Conrad was a cartographer of the imagination. He imposed color and boundaries on an unclaimed mindscape; when he was finished, certain images and sensations became forever Conradian. Unlike his sedentary fellow writers, though, Conrad roamed widely in fact as well as fancy. His career as a young seaman took him to exotic places, and the cargo of perceptions he brought home sustained him as an aging author. His travels outward were then mirrored by his journey inward. Once, Conrad had chugged laboriously up the Congo River to reach the heart of darkness; later he realized...
...their tone very low as if to assure us that their lines will require no emotional response." Lytton Strachey, recalls the aphorist, once told him that Horace could not be a good poet because everything he wrote was a platitude. "This is the Romantic view of poetry, for in fact it requires a very great poet to make platitudes come alive, since they are sentiments we once felt but, through the dulling of our minds by habit, have ceased any longer to feel...
...which all inhabitants of Keith County order their lives to ensure one another's survival, provides the theme of Janovy's work. In each of his essays, which can be read as homilies, every living thing owes its continued existence to other creatures. Animals recognize this fact instinctively; man continues to ignore it at his peril...
...Book of Genesis, the universe began in a single, flashing act of creation; the divine intellect willed all into being, ex nihilo. It is not surprising that scientists have generally stayed clear of the question of ultimate authorship, of the final "uncaused cause." In years past, in fact, they held to the Aristotelian idea of a universe that was "ungenerated and indestructible," with an infinite past and an infinite future. This was known as the Steady State theory...