Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first published the Chicago speech without comment. It took three days for the Communist hierarchy to make up their minds, but after that Mr. Roosevelt was hailed in Moscow as warmly as in Madrid. "These words mean recognition of the principle of the indivisibility of peace," declared Pravda ("Truth"), official organ of the Communist Party, "that is to say, the very principle for which the Soviet Union so stubbornly and consistently stood in its foreign policy...
Poets want to take truth by the hand; prophets want to get truth by the tail. A hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative...
Inscribes in his dark diary. The truth...
...seem a strange activity to couple with the direction of a movement for national spiritual uplift. But the Manchurian conflict had taught China the truth of the tragic axiom that 'God helps those who help themselves...
There are three possible ways to deal with propaganda. You can suppress it, meet it with counter-propaganda or analyze it and try to see how much truth there is in it. We are going to analyze...