Word: truest
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This revival has its haunting implications. In his truest and most tragic self-analysis, Camus notes, "My whole work is ironic." True because he always places fact alongside theory to dramatize the distance between humane ideals and human failure. Tragic because he also confesses, "The sole effort of my life [was] to live the life of a normal man." A generation after his death, Albert Camus's Notebooks continually show that the "normal" virtues of courage, of decency, of uncompromising accuracy are, in fact, as vulnerable as great writers - and as rare as great writing. - Stefan Kanfer
...healthy, democratic impulse. In any case, yellow journalism has not left us--it has only gone underground, and is handled more subtly. In short, though possessing immense power and unprecedented popular diffusion, the press is losing its healthy diversity, its latitude, its freedom of expression in the truest sense of the phrase...
...constantly coming back nowadays, but I must admit that the Yazoo of my truest reality is a languid village on a summer's day of 30 years ago, when one big car whipping through with out-of-state plates was diversion enough. I know what Mark Twain meant when he returned to Hannibal: "I had a sort of realizing sense of what the Bastille prisoners must have felt when they used to come out and look upon Paris after years of captivity and note how curiously the familiar and the strange were mixed together before them...
Hoberman, it must be understood, is an intellectual in the truest sense of the word. He is not like your everyday Harvard professor who has a couple of pops and enjoys the tenured existence--the refugee from Berkeley is not yet a professor but rather an aspiring one who works out of his Scandanavian Department office in Boylston Hall...
Greasy Skillet. Even critics who refuse to be amused cannot deny what has become obvious over the years: when Wolfe concentrates solely on reporting, he is virtually peerless among contemporary journalists. In The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie, the longest and best piece in this collection, he gives an unforgettably tactile account of combat life on a U.S. aircraft carrier, a "heaving greasy skillet," in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967. Those who have not been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better...