Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rely on sophisticated devices of writing techniques and hence the less crisp and the less "to be taken over a cup of coffee" becomes such writing. I am sure that others share my conviction that it is easier to write "engagingly" when one is not rigorously intent upon the truth...
...little his art of happy phrasing, dramatic power, conciseness, together with the whole bag of tricks which he has mastered. However, I think that all this brilliance and techniques make me dislike the more this man's writings for art in such a case makes palpable half-truths and even errors a which would be recognized as such if they were stripped naked of their glittering verbiage. Here there is no painstaking conscientious attempt to discover and portray truth whenever truth is not starting or when it calls for judicious balancing of content considerations. All is black or white...
...English Composition instructors fall to realize that the primary consideration of writing and conversation is to arrive at truth, whether it be merely the truth shown by holding the mirror to life objectively or to one's own mind, or whether it be by the blazing of new trails of thought by rigorous and logical analysis, then their task certainly cannot be properly conceived. At present my impression is that certainly sent my impression is that the light-hearted, superficial but clever boy, given to extremes in thought and dress, is overrated and that the immature but serious boy struggling...
...members of the dental profession devote their lives toward the alleviation of pain. So next time won't you please give us a considerate word; and if the author still insists that he was telling the truth when he made such a statement I would suggest that he have his next tooth extracted by an up-to-date dentist. What a pleasant surprise in store...
President Roosevelt orated a vital Truth in Friday's harangue. "In the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power" ("the new instruments of public power" created by his administration) "would provide shackles for the liberties of the people." Also such power bodes danger when any sort of inexperienced, demagogic President and Administration hold it. That is why such added power seems scandalous when combined with wholesale corruption of the Civil Service. That is why those who do not hold as high opinion of Mr. Roosevelt as judging from the self-righteousness and continual self-quotation...