Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cinema column after its long absence, liking its frank and sane appreciations. Most of us, I think, recognize the piffle that still permeates many films, and we like to be told in advance where it may be found-or avoided. Do not, TIME, cease to tell the truth in art as your reviewer sees it, until you cease to tell the truth in news...
...child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital in Manhattan she gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Vera (truth). Last week an enterprising reporter of the New York World, unabashed by Mrs. Burnham's admonition ("This is not the sort of thing you would want to put in a newspaper"), gave her story to the world...
...Story, even before it became gospel truth, had been told many times and in many ways. Its outlines, the framework that is a matter of fact, not opinion, belief or hypothesis, remains comparatively fixed. It begins on a morning in Bethlehem, Palestine, when a woman called Mary gave birth to a small child whose father was either, according to the faith or cynicism of the reader, her husband or the Almighty...
...would take a blind man, a hypocrite, or a total abstainer from Boston parties to deny that there is not at least a germ of truth in the picture which Miss Lowella Cabot paints in the Advocate of the Harvard man off on a tear in Boston. Overdrawn the picture is, of course, but no more off the plumb line than is necessary for good satire...
...traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that Poe's reputation as a souse did more to boost him into tardy fame than a dozen "Ravens" would have done...