Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritan ties grew weaker and weaker, Unitarianism appeared on the New England landscape, and the Divinity School was organized in 1816. Its constitution prescribes that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required either of the Students or Professors or Instructors...
Wallace expressed his faith in the "purifying effect of American democracy" to wash away press and political distortions of the present hysteria wave, which he likened to the days of A. Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare. "The truth eventually comes out," he said...
...that Americans had been called "hysterical" in their attitude toward Russia. He would be hysterical too, he said, "if I knew only what I read in the American press. I am not accusing them of deliberately publishing untruths, but the American press does engage in selective use of the truth that is the last word in propaganda...
...moonlight chilliness of his mood, his refusal to soften the deepening ambiguities of truth (as he saw it), the pitiless obsession of his God-seeking, and the scary symbolism in which he embodied his God-seeking, have kept Kafka from becoming a popular writer. Yet readers with the requisite staying power will find that in the scope of the problem to which he dedicated himself, in the depth and integrity of his discernments and in the variety of means by which he dramatized his vision in terms of everyday life (thereby giving to everyday life new implications and new dimensions...
Religious Humorist. The mood in which Kafka energizes his perception of the incompatibility of God and man is unequivocal, masculine and as glitteringly clear as winter air. He is the least sentimental or feminine of modern writers. But truth and derangement are galley-mates, since the horror that tugs at the same oar is the perception that man and his fate by human standards are monstrous. Kafka retains his sanity by his realization that man's fate is also divine comedy. This is the hinge of his unearthly irony...