Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps, in her slack eyes, her gasping mouth, her anguished hands there existed in truth some climax of sorrow. Lest they should be forced to reverse their preconceived opinions of Mr. Epstein, they hurried away from the bronze figures...
...assignments of reading and to utter vague hints concerning the ultimate examination on that reading, the three weeks following the Christmas Holidays assume a more severe and on the whole a more normal aspect. As has been said before, and as will be said until experience has proved the truth of the statement, Respite is not, in this case, synonymous with Relaxation...
...last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical Library, carries on the torch of culture. And I write with more feeling because not only the truth about Harvard has been exposed, but also about myself. For the five courses in Greek which the writer pointed out as constituting the curriculum at Harvard constitutes at the same time my sole instruction in that department as an undergraduate. The Yale News was probably not aware of the fast that...
...sessingly as a frothy ne'er-do-well. Herein he plays a rough villager with whom the fickle lady of the play falls surpassingly in love. Her southern family storm; and her father shoots the villager. For the gay, lying lady, suddenly swept off her feet by the truth of passion, there is no resource but death...
This view, it seems, must necessitate an aesthetic judgement of truth--a feeling of harmony and unity. Unfortunately Mr. Dieffenbach's book does not contain the aesthetic requirements to be demanded from a book setting forth such views. The style is appalling. How does one think 'long, long thoughts,' and what appeal, if any, have puissant moral dynamics? Heaven defend us from such things. The cover of the book is blue and the print is large...