Word: revealers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Josephus Daniels speaks his long piece honestly and guilelessly in the scrawny indigenous jargon of his trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever blessed," who can affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such...
...above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...
...That for a suspiciously long time he would not reveal his astronomical observations...
...eager shoulders the Student Union has placed the burden of determining Harvard's sentiments on war or peace. Its "University Peace Poll" will reveal on Friday the pro and con results of questions challenging every American mind. In the enthusiasm of following the lead of other collegiate polls, in the desire to represent its own opinions as those of the majority, the Student Union has forgotten its immense responsibility. The results of the poll will be hailed as "the voice of Harvard." But what value is the "voice" when the prompter has insinuated directions in every line...
Lurching from sideline to sideline, a gauche Daily Princetonaian touch football squad bowed before the CRIMSON gridmen Saturday morning by a humiliating score agreed by those present to be too excessive to reveal...