Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose is a rose is a rose. Her description of St. Ignatius' vision of the Holy Ghost was "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Wit, whimsy, sly associations of sound were Gertrude Stem's forte; when she got heavy or theoretical, she was unreadable. It is a truism of the Lost Generation that she influenced Hemingway's style crucially. He took her schematic use of sound patterns and transmogrified it into the spare, stylized prose that became the most pervasive literary parlance of the century. For all her celebrity as a writer, Stein's fame lies...
...Women have intellectual abilities equal to men's." With that ringing truism, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education last week launched its latest report, Opportunities for Women in Higher Education. "What a great start!" muttered one of the reporters assembled at a press conference in Boston. The commission's chairman, Clark Kerr, was unruffled. "We know that, of course," he said, "but we had to make the statement because not all men accept...
Although it is excellent to have a giant's strength, it is tyrannous to use it like a giant, and a giant acting for himself can't use it any other way. By deepening our understanding of this truism, Sampson's book may hasten--in however slight a degree--the day when the people of the world assume the power their capital has built...
...movie admits no more than a turn of the century secret: Nora's education in a system of sexual power that admitted no equality has cast her identity in a mold of submission. But in conceding this so generously, the movie attaches a seventies' relevance to a decades' old truism...
...Harvard still faces the problem of not having any commonly accepted definition of "corporate social responsibility" to work with. The Austin Report argued against "joining forces with other large, tax-exempt organizations in policing the conduct of business corporations." Yet, it noted that "it is a truism in the financial world that [except for rare cases] abstention in a proxy contest is a vote for management...