Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure type person. He had long since abandoned the glory of professional football for a relatively quiet existence as coach at tiny Gettysburg College. In coming to Harvard, many felt, Yovicsin would find the "big-time" too much to handle. Nothing could have been further from the truth. His low-pressure approach to football and his genuine love of the game appear to have solved the problem of what type of man should be head coach of the Crimson team...
Theology: "Doctrine, truth is not a substantial deposit that one can lay hold of as an end in itself. One pursues truth, but truth is for the purpose of life. I guess there is enough of an existentialist in me to feel that theology and commitment belong together. To regard theology as a closed system you stand off from-well, that's what Kierkegaard was talking about when he said 'To be a theologian is to have crucified Christ...
...Hague, to his younger brother Theo, 15, began the greatest correspondence in the history of art. Eighteen years and hundreds of letters later, it was to end with the letter found in Vincent's pocket after he had fatally shot himself with a revolver: "Well, the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer in Corots, that through my mediation you have had your part in the actual production of some canvases, which will retain...
...through them and earned their lasting enmity. In The Long Dream the Mississippi Negro boy is called Rex "Fishbelly" Tucker, but so far as the story's essentials are concerned, his name might be Richard Wright. Fishbelly's father, an undertaker, once taught him an important truth as he buried the mutilated body of a young Negro who had accepted the sexual invitation of a white woman. Said Tyree Tucker: "One more black dream dead . . . a dream that can't come true." As Fishbelly sees it, growing up in the black belt of a small Mississippi city...
...based on fear and hatred, that the white world visits on the Negro. By this time, even Expatriate Wright should know that his picture is too crudely black and white: he writes as if nothing had changed since he grew up in Mississippi. But there is still so much truth in his crude, pounding, wrathful book that no honest reader can remain wholly unmoved...