Word: truest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wings of the Dove. Interview With the Vampire. No connection? As Henry James might say, the depth of congruence that does, in fact, exist between these seeming dissemblables is enough, upon revelation, to transport one into the fullest and truest state of deep perturbation and wonderment...
...Eastern countries Buddha was elevated to godlike status in the center of an elaborate, ritualized theology. Since we Americans are not programmed to accept the cultural, traditional trappings of Eastern Buddhism, we can more clearly see the moon instead of focusing on the finger pointing toward it. Perhaps the truest Buddhism of all will finally surface here in the U.S. LARRY WALLINGFORD Chicago...
...that it might be best if Timothy McVeigh were not executed [CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, June 16], "to deny him his bid for martyrdom, to keep him earthbound and watch him slowly wither...just another old jailbird shuffling around his cell." But McVeigh will never be a martyr in the truest sense of the word, which comes from the Greek word for witness. It connotes one who testifies for his beliefs with the ultimate passionate guarantee of sincerity and a willingness to die for them. McVeigh stood on his right to silence and did not admit to the bombing or seek...
Still, we often came together and affirmed our truest selves. We set down our books, stopped being critics and became artists. We supported each other, learned from each other and redeemed each other. We went to The Game, the formals and the parties. We sledded down the steps of Widener into piles of freshly-fallen snow. We shared intramurals, journals and meals. We fell in love and out of love, and we forged lasting friendships. Cherish those memories. They're what make us human...
...this book--what are we going to do?' and it comes very easily. That's not writing from an outline as much as living in your character's skin." Clark explains that creating characters who live out one's fears, hopes and joys is in a way creating the truest kind of autobiography. Invoking the words of The New Yorker's Janet Malcomb, Clark said that "the only literature that is 100 percent true is fiction...