Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Moviemaker Pudovkin showed that he at last knew in whose fist the button of Truth reposed. Said he: "The directives of the Central Committee taught us a lot. ... It seems all these conclusions are so simple we should have known them before...
...Writers. "So pervasive has the new tradition of the closed mind become in journalism that there are many topics on which it is hard, today, to get even a reasonably fair-minded article. I should like, for instance, to know whether or not there is truth in the reports that during the war the control of American industry has become more concentrated than before. This is the sort of thing that we ought to know about. But I feel in my bones that most of the journalists who might be competent to deal with it would regard themselves as bound...
...Jerusalem the diggers were searching for truth in a city where every square yard is encrusted with stoutly defended legend. Recently they discovered evidence calculated to knock the props from under the holiest spot in Christendom, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
...novel when he died last May, aged 76. He had about a third of it still to write. It is now published, unfinished, with an introduction by his widow. She recalls how her husband distinguished what he called "the investigatory novel" from the "escapist" one-and declares that "the truth and mystery of human nature, and how most clearly to tell about that truth and that mystery" were the concern of his mature writing...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...