Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentioning words of such universal importance. President Butler assumed a responsibility to contribute something to one side of the other. As he remarks. "Universities are from time to time denounced as nurseries of revolution by these who are quite unable to comprehend what freedom to seek the truth really means and involves." He proceeds to defend the implications of the statement but concludes with a warning against the fall from dignity caused by attacks on others...
...educative mechanism is bound up in a complex of interdependencies which hamper free action. President Butler adroitly approves the theory and forbids the act, just as do so many other leaders of education; they are all accountable to some lone who would be injured by an undue enthusiasm over truth. It is certain that freedom in teaching is desirable. But it is a futile hope until the departmental and the endowment systems are so altered as to make of them aids' rather than chains...
...would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of your misrepresentations and let you suffer the chagrin that the truth would have made a more romantic story than your fiction...
...that the Italian Government, by threatening to bar Paramount pictures from Italy, had caused the retreat from Caporetto to be deleted is untrue photographically, the Caporetto sequences are the most effective in the picture. The report that Paramount had given A Farewell to Arms a happy ending has more truth in it. A conclusion in which Catherine Barkley does not die in childbirth was made but will not be used unless cinemaddicts resent the present one. Informed by Paramount that two prints of A Farewell to Arms could be sent to Piggott, Ark. for his inspection. Author Hemingway last week...
...have as wide an appeal as a well-written detective story. Like some of the mediocre tales of crime, "Circumstantial Evidence" suffers from a plot that temerity would brand as clap-trap, but discrimination would be inclined to call well cemented. Although damaging evidence may be inextricable from the truth, a plot that is so tortuously constructed is likely to cause the spectator's credulity to totter. There are too many improbable parallels...