Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. Whenever the truth has not been fancy enough, he has lied to other people; whenever it has hurt, he has lied to himself. Nor have his sons fared better-neither the boy who loved his father till he found him with a woman, nor the one who has never loved anything...
...kind of humorist who will offer to tell you "the latest on Margaret O'Brien" or "the TRUTH about Dame May Whitty," might be the person the new Yale Record was written for. It is an unsuccessful parody on the comic book which never begins to realize its possibilities...
...dear friends, [these] are words of an Hungarian Communist,* words that echo the thoughts of men depraved and deranged-men who do not know truth, love, justice or faith . . . These lines . . . are taught to the youth of red-enshackled lands . . . where everybody is afraid of everybody else, where even a son fears his father and fathers fear their own blood-sons, as all become serfs and victims of the relentless god of Baal! . . . They are wild words of warning, and, unless we listen well and realize that we must counteract them by concerted, constant prayer and action, then these words...
...through Holiday magazine. He had done this so often that now the pages leaped up as his thumb drew near, leaped up and fell back until the Chosen Spot appeared. Vag wasted little time with the pictures; the article itself moved him more, for hidden there was a great truth and the more he pondered it, the truer it seemed...
...Academic freedom consists of something more than merely an absence of restraints placed upon the teacher by the institution that employs him. It demands as well an absence of restraints placed upon him by his political affiliations, by dogmas that may stand in the way of free search for truth, or by rigid adherence to a party line...