Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same way. By the law of inexorable necessity and through the perpetual conflict of forces, matter moves toward the final synthesis of a classless society." Offering no concrete alternative to Communism, "Since this is not [the Church's] field," Pius XI nevertheless begged for Catholic "equilibrium of truth and justice" in a passage which liberal Catholics hoped was a rap at Fascism. Since the Church now appears to get along well with Fascism of the Italian variety, the rap seemed to apply to Naziism. Three days later this was amply confirmed when the Pope dispatched to Germany a circular...
...condemnation which characterizes Bernard Shaw. On the one hand he condemns us for our anxiety to be "good fellows" while on the other he praises us for our democracy. Where he is unfavorable in his criticism, he is usually just, and try as we may, we cannot overlook the truth of his remarks...
There was more truth than poetry in Professor Opdycke's announcement in the opening lecture of Fine Arts 1d that half the course would concern architecture, half painting, and a quarter sculpture. Every lecture in the course is necessarily presented at a speed rivaling Floyd Gibbons and Ted Husing at their best. The consequence is that only a few salient suggestions can be scribbled down by the student concerning even the most significant works of art, and the chances of a man's choosing the most important features for notation are at best slim...
...eternal verities, such as they are, seem best to be apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...
...first novels in the late 1890s they were regarded as daringly modern. These books would seem primly old-fashioned now. Still up-to-date, still a jump ahead of his popular-magazine colleagues, Maugham's stories still give the agreeably shocking sensation of telling the candid, unconventional truth. An expertly professional author, with few illusions about the world he writes of, he concocts tales that often leave a depressing brown taste in the mouth but seldom bore the palate while they are being swallowed. His latest novel-what a famous actress is really like, "inside"-makes entertaining reading...