Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...True Truth. There has never been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...
...there is any truth in such a story, it may be what Rivera's friendly enemy and fellow muralist, Communist David Siqueiros, calls la verdad verdadera-the true truth-meaning something poetically, if not factually, true. "What is marvelous with Diego," says Siqueiros, "is that he never tells a 100% lie." Frida agrees: "He is such a liar as are poets or children who have not been turned into idiots by their parents or the school...
Detective Story is much the same brand of documentary melodrama as Kingsley's Dead End and Men in White. Wherever it can, the play lets truth walk side by side with good theater, but in a pinch it is always theater that has right of way. Among other things, Detective Story pleads that mercy should season justice. But too often it lets hokum season realism, and raises salient questions only to provide inconclusive answers...
...first philosopher to make truth pay, and like Jesus I went among the sinners by getting my articles printed in the Tory and Hearst press . . . William Morris died weeping for the poor, I'll die denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells...
...fate of Charles Dickens ("so much is known about him that might have happened to Wickens, or Pickens, or Stickens that his biographers have obliterated him"), Shaw devotes most of Self Sketches to correcting "what had been overlooked or misunderstood."* Sample restatements: ¶ "I have not yet ascertained the truth about myself. For instance, how far am I mad, and how far sane? I do not know." ¶ "Aunt Ellen, though humpbacked, was not a midget...