Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend of Hayes-Bickford well knows you must add or subtract one or two decibels from the continuous spiel of college theatre people, if you seek something akin to the ring of truth (that is). Whether you add or subtract largely depends on which way the warm wind blows; when a number of The Good Woman's company quit in desperation last week, the breeze ran swift and hot. My abacus lost track utterly, trying to keep count amid such blustery meteorology and all. You sometimes wonder why such a modest little show as this one should involve these higher...
...powerful jaws of a crocodile and the boat overturned. While he desperately swam for the shore, the crocodile ripped at his flesh. The doctor refused to believe the man's story, pointed out that his wounds had been clearly caused by some sharp instrument. "To tell the truth," said the injured man, "the crocodile had a knife...
What often seems like simple, elementary la-plume-de-ma-tante performing is in truth almost untranslatably idiomatic. From two of Broadway's outstanding virtues. La Plume removes the accompanying kinks: there is no aggression in its showmanship, no tension in its speed...
...William James he railed at the failure of man to acquire "a single vital fact worth knowing." He was obsessed with the American fallacy that life was some kind of inside story that an enterprising philosopher-reporter could crack wide open: "We may some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and immortality...
...middle years, Henry Adams salted the tail of no abstract truth and had not secured the literary immortality of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres and the Education, but he was subtly acquiring a measure of Socratic greatness. For the answers that man gives to the dilemmas of his time are often interred with his bones, but the questions he asks about life's eternal mystery live after...