Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring is the season of the Vagabond. It is then that he wakes from his boozy hibernation and begins his hegiras to the pools of Truth. But this year the groundhogs have deceived him, and the Vagabond awakes to find himself in a bitter world of snow, and snow-removers, and more snow. Sitting at his fire with a cheerful glass, he tries to forget, and fancies himself in ancient Attica where it is spring now and the Gods are smiling on humanity. Dinoysus, sitting at Zeus' table, looks down with special pleasure, for this is the time...
...been pleaded in justification of non-decision forensics that both sides contain a measure of truth and that a verdict distorts out of their proper weight the arguments presented, but surely this is just a rationalization. Legislative bodies approve or vote down proposals. Scientists after the submission of evidence, choose between two hypotheses...
More than 50 years ago Professor Kittredge started on his career of inspiring his students, of inculcating in them a reverence for the truth. For over 30 years the caste of these he instructed as to what Shakespeare really meant has been increasing in numbers...
...intellectual resources of the national future." Such is the strong, concise language of Dr. Glenn Frank, the able President of the University of Wisconsin. Every individual who maintains the slightest contact with his locality knows the sorry state of the public schools far too well to challenge the truth of this statement. The desperate plight of Chicago was merely the most publicized of many similar instances. All over the country the casual observer will discover many schools closed, others laboring under the handicaps of classes of fifty or sixty, shorter terms, limited curricula, underpaid and unpaid teachers. Every community faces...
...myself, all that I am, on a single moment -my last." As Claude watches his dying friend he thinks: "Ah, if only they existed, those gods of theirs, and he might, even at the cost of never-ending torment, howl in their faces, like the baying dogs, the bitter truth-that no hope of heaven, no promise of reward, nothing can justify the end of any human life...