Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follows a description of the officer's abusive treatment and uncivil request; it is "Coulter refused..." As you will appreciate, this suggests that my reply was of a kind with the officer's request, and that to his unreasonable demand I returned an equally unreasonable and categorical refusal. The truth is that I protested his treatment and attempted to clarify my rights as a citizen. It was this protest which led to my arrest...
...distinction is certainly marked during Bicker, and it probably holds a good deal of truth the rest of the year. The charge of "anti-intellectualism on the Street" is one that finds increasing currency at Princeton. Professor James Ward Smith of the Philosophy Department, in an article for The Daily Princetonian, stated the case for those who reject not the club system but what the club system now does...
...eight-year-old Japanese film classic, and some of the charm and power of the film has spilled away in transit. Culled originally from two short stories by Japan's late mordant satirist, Akutagawa, Rashomon poses a philosophic question that means all things to all men: What is truth...
...moment of truth for these characters sadly shatters the mythic mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa for something close to farce. What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly...
...Mistress (Daiei; Edward Harrison), one of the finest films the Japanese have made, is a poignant restatement of the timeless truth that in the last analysis a social problem is a moral problem, and a moral problem can only have a religious solution...