Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvardman Bartley's stand against the religious dogmatism of President Nathan Pusey [April 14] and his band of idealists is heroic. Better one humanist steadily working to ameliorate the evils that afflict mankind than 100 men of religion insisting that each has a monoply on the truth...
Russia since 1955. Yugoslavia had all but forfeited the grudging admiration it had once enjoyed in the West, and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovic was stating simple truth when he declared last week: "We have no place in either of the existing international camps." The question was, was he bragging or complaining...
...Soon the truth was out. While still at sea on his nine-day trip from New York, the Cardinal had developed an ache in his right arm. At first it had been ascribed to recurrence of the "writer's cramp" he had apparently suffered in Chicago, the result of his characteristic thoughtfulness in writing personal replies to thousands of letters of congratulation on his appointment. But the ache had grown to pain, and the pain to agony...
...toward the erection of the Church, and in spite of the sacrifice of Jewish lives of which it was a memorial,* the gifts were somehow impressed with a trust that forbade any contamination of the premises that might compromise the claims of Protestant Christianity to a monopoly of ultimate truth." Wrote Psychology Professor Jerome Seymour Bruner: "The Memorial Church now becomes a symbol of disunity . . . There has been exclusion. I cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community." A delegation of top faculty members paid a visit...
Otto Muller's Standing Nude in Landscape cannot be called cacophonous, but the element of good painting it in fact possesses only makes its faults doubly inexcusable. The figure, standing amidst branches, two of which are her arms, possesses all the spiritual truth of a chic cosmetics ad. Like the surrounding stuff by Schmidt-Rotluff, Rohlfs, Pechstein, et al, there is a point here, a point there, a little theory everywhere, but not so very much cohesive painting when all is said and done...