Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the slim plot, through long-drawn-out dialogue, Italian Dramatist Pirandello's philosophy of reality struggles to reveal itself. Facts are not reality, are merest illusions of the senses. Fiction of the imaginative mind is the only true reality. Hence the pity of it: a poor girl torn out of her last shred of beauty, revealed even in death, a sordid fact...
...like trying to say why some leaves have crickets living under them while others have not. When Artist Arthur Rackham adjusts his cuffs and sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch...
...figures compiled reveal that the 24 eating clubs at Harvard take care of 470, the Freshman Dining Halls 700 men and the Graduate School Eating Clubs and boarding house 487 men each day. This makes a total of 1657 students who are provided for daily by regular dining establishments...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp., which is complaining of the invasion by German steel of U. S. markets. Mr. Schwab said that the mills are running at more than 80% capacity, that the national steel production this year would go beyond 50,000,000 tons; but he declined to reveal any conversation on the subject of German steel. Next day, the Official Spokesman informed the press that the career of Mr. Schwab epitomized the opportunities of this Republic...
What is lacking in episode is made up in anecdote: Grandfather McGehee's second wedding, to which the bride never came for a reason which he long disdained to reveal; Cousins Hester and Micajah McGehee, who stuck a pin in their candle to show whose turn it was to talk; the first Communion of Uncle George's black man, Solomon, who reported that the parson had given him the cup with the words: "Pass de goblet an' say, 'Brethren, jink...