Word: truest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hemingway told of how the Swedish consul in Cuba called him at his home in San Francisco do Paula yesterday as soon as news of the Nobel judges' decision had arrived. He then immediately sent Laxness a telegram saying "Truest congratulations and best wishes to an excellent writer...
...personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...
...modern Russia are therefore not worth very much. "I have been wrong so many times before that I prefer not to make any predictions now," says the man who left Russian 38 years ago and would not go back today, but who is nevertheless one of the world's truest representatives of his native land...
...think the lyrics of Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart will live on long after Dr. Hayakawa has taken his "research" to a place where he will find his "perfect" lyrics. The truest meaning of his IFD is more probably Insane, Frantic and Deaf...
...Lord won plaudits for the great interest he took in his students, his competence in handling discussions, and his insight into the course readings. A combination of scholarship and humility drew praise for head section man Sweeny. He is described as an "ideal" section man, a "teacher in the truest sense," while a critic thought him too tolerant of some of the opinions offered. On the other hand, students thought Levenson unenthusiastic, often boring, and felt that he usually spoke too far above the class' level. '55 objected to the fact that he did too much talking, with little encouragement...