Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ODTAA?John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). The tumultuous imagination of John Masefield, rather than fling itself upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There...
...core of which may or may not be the weird relationship between a young Russian dancer, Lydie Manuiloff, and her Siamese cat, Pasha. Besides this problem in comparative psychiatry, there is a remarkably fine exposition of British and Russian reticences in conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually prepared by the cook to kill Pasha. This inscrutable animal lives on, after...
...this any departure from sound and vigorous truth. As announced in this morning's CRIMSON, the newsboys have taken to arms and refuse to continue their matutinal tasks without remuneration commensurate with their, desires. And this of course centers the grand crisis upon the CRIMSON. Alone against the world of organized labor this periodical must stand--or at least that part of the world which delivers the CRIMSON to the breakfast tables--or breakfast arms of Cambridge...
...other as a result of prohibition. Students who want to drink can still get liquor almost as easily as they could before, and continue to do it. On the other hand drinking has certainly not increased in the last decade. I think we approximate the truth more nearly if we say that prohibition has not affected Harvard than if we try to demonstrate, its beneficial or disastrous results among the students here...
...though with Horace one can admit that to play the fool in the right place is delightful, one cannot admit that the steps of Widener Library are the place. That the recent demonstration of the truth that Aristotle was a trifle sanguine in naming man a thinking being was significant of nothing but a moronic joie de vivre, nevermore to darken the doors of Widener is obvious. The moving pictures have enough material on hand for absurd caricature of Harvard life without aid from the class...