Word: truisms
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...truism is that the eye can lie, but the nose knows. Cool pools in the middle of the desert turn out to be heat vapor or over-the-horizon reflections. A bartender can suddenly split into identical twins. But drop a blindfolded man into the middle of a place that whiffs of tanned calfskin, saddle soap and cordovan polish. Is he in a shoe store? Not necessarily...
...truism loudly trumpeted by West German politicians these days is that the nation's youth can no longer be blamed for the crimes or the mistaken beliefs of its elders. But what does youth believe in? Since 3,078,000 Germans born between 1940 and 1944 will be eligible to vote for the first time next fall in what seems likely to be a close election, both Ludwig Erhard's Christian Democrats and Willy Brandt's Social Democrats would love to know. Last week their strategists were poring over the 200-page digest of a report...
...world of burgeoning knowledge, it has become a ludicrous truism that the educated man cannot know everything. So, too, very few think that the history of Western civilization is by itself an adequate key to an appreciation of the full range of knowledge...
...York City, the truism goes, is not America. But it is the American Big City - increasingly so, as the homogenizing forces of the 20th century make all cities, all towns, all countrysides, and the people in them, interchangeable. In recent weeks, two New York crimes have dramatized facts of big-city life that have implications far beyond New York's five boroughs...
...AMERICAN CONSCIENCE-New School Art Center, 66 West 12th. The truism that the artist is concerned with society serves as an excuse to bring together some of the best realistic paintings -and a few not so realistic-of this century. The works range from Ben Shahn's famed The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti to Robert Rauschenberg's tribute to President Kennedy, Buffalo 1964. Through April...