Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this gossipy vituperation, Writer Forbes gives his explanation: "Some of the may be regarded as unduly harsh. The truth is that the writer has things here reported and quoted received a larger number of bitter letters from past and present Ford workers than has ever been received regarding any other employer in America...
...destructive as quibbling over a subject whose nature is as dignified as inartificial--and as intangible--as is this. There is something greater and finer than quarrels as to place, plans and particulars--and no reasoning that such quarrels are necessary for perfection can destroy the basic truth of this statement...
...feared in some quarters that an acknowledgment of error would diminish respect for the courts. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing can undermine public esteem for law more certainly than a prevalent suspicion that its guardians care more for their own consistency than for human rights. The real enemies of our institutions are nomen like Sacco and Vanzettil whose criticisms are outspoken and can be met, while their constructions are Utoplan. Our real enemies are those who defend the indefensible, who refuse to acknowledge errors obvious to all thoughtful men, and who defer to lesser interests that primary...
...truth so obvious as to be almost a platitude that what seems radical to a previous generation is a common place twenty five years later. Not only is this true in the customs and ideas which go to make up life in general, but it can perhaps be seen even more clearly in the arts and no where in the arts more obviously than in music. Wagner for example was looked upon by many of our grandparents in the same way in which the more conservative members of the present generation look upon the cacaphonus mechanics of modern workers...
Just who is this standardized American anyway? He is, it would seem, an even more elusive personality than this Christian Gauss. For just what are his standards, and wherein lies the vice of standardization so long as the standards partake to some extent of the nature of truth...