Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truth is that a mutilated portion of the clipping came to me through two or three pairs of hands the last pair being horny with toil and a trifle shy on literary appreciation. Whoever had extracted it originally had been concerned apparently only with its central subject matter and had sheared away (I have since discovered by examining the files of TIME) the opening paragraphs in which TIME was mentioned and the closing lines, including the author's name...
...Significance. Author Priestley writes freshly and smiles frequently. But his humor and facility engender their allied failings, and the book never bites through to reality. Lacking the sincere emotionalism of Dickens, he yet does not reach the labored truth of Galsworthy, though he has learned from both. Still his lively perceptions create a very readable and satisfying counterfeit of life. Accomplished craftsman, lie has an excellent understanding of the novelist's profession, a less imposing knowledge...
...colonists. Besides painting, classes in furniture-making (later dropped), rug-weaving, metal-working and pottery were instituted. The farmers' attitude is indicated by a Le Gallienne anecdote: "One of them recently interviewed as to what he thought of the artists when they first came . . . replied, 'Wall, to tell the truth we thought they was a bunch of wild Indians and maybe some of them still is. In those days they'd take a canvas out into the field and begin painting on it. First, they'd put a dab of paint of one color and take about ten steps back...
When these essays were recently published in England, J. B. S. Haldane, who had previously written on the subject, recognized 44 passages as his own, rebuked the Earl (TIME, June 2). The latter admitted that there was some truth in the comment, sales jumped, and now the book appears in the U. S., a brain-child of truly distinguished parentage...
Astonished at the outcome of his game, the judge ruled: "The accused is acquitted. The court may not judge in a sphere where science remains undecided. . . . No one has a right to complain if, going to a clairvoyant, he does not learn the truth, even as no one ought to find fault if he does not draw the winning number in a lottery...