Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West who had said that he did not deserve it. Quasimodo pooh-poohed the Soviet oppression of Hungary, lashed out at Western publications that had hinted that he was a Red. Said the new Nobelman: "It is said that I am proud, conceited, and difficult to understand. The truth is that I am loved by the people...
From that time on, in his pilgrimage to discover the truth about North and South, Allan meets all the top people. There is "the notorious Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into...
Brooking severest criticism, Lowell adamantly refused to remove Laski. "Knowledge can advance... only by means of an unfettered search for truth on the part of those who devote their lives to seeking it...," he said "and by complete freedom in imparting... the truth that they have found. Either the University assumes full responsibility for permitting its professors to express certain opinions in public, or it assumes no responsibility whatsoever, and leaves them to be dealt with like other citizens by the public authorities." The University steered always by the latter course under President Lowell and consequently left its faculty free...
...being muzzled and the free expression of opinion stifled in many American universities," Morison had said in discussing the Laski incident, the Lowell Administration "acted so as to make every member of the teaching faculties feel that he could teach, write, and say what he believed to be the truth, with due regard to decency in utterance and appropriateness in occasion. No reasonable man could breath the air of Harvard at this time and not feel free...
...play has its contrived moments and false notes, and the German-however well played by Michael Bryant-serves too many purposes to emerge entirely right. But in view of England's gulf between classes and generations and often evasive family tactics, there is more than a measure of truth in Shaffer's picture. And with John Gielgud eloquently directing a good cast in which the father and son are outstanding, there is a definite abundance of theater...