Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unease they perforce seized upon familiar precepts and standards whereby to judge themselves and their President. Precepts frequently stated, standards often used may become cliches. Crisis cliches are as likely as any others to be hardily true, are just as likely to be tired symbols of what once was truth. The people with their many voices and no single voice have tried and tested two crises cliches...
There are those who hold that it portends good fortune for any football team to be universally rated as a minus quantity by the preseason prognosticators of the press. If there be any truth in this theory, then Yale's 1939 eleven should have, to say the least, a banner year...
...earnest seeker of truth, which he thinks he has found in science, David pulls out for London to live on his grand-patrimony while he studies biology. Strapped before his third year is out, David braves old Sir Thomas Danby, his father's father, who has had no notion of his existence. The bastard's ordeal turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk...
Before David is tossed skallyhooting out of his paradise and his ephemeral inheritance, some excellent war talk is heard from, among others, an aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show...
...democracies' viewpoint, this war is a war to preserve existing cultures and standards of values. Thus the greatest emphasis possible in the post-war period will be placed upon culture, and the value to society of a truly cultured man, a man versed in the search for real truth, will be greatly increased. In the near future the world will need as many artists as economists, as many writers as social technicians...