Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS possesses grains of truth beneath some predictable chaff. The evening's four tales of men and women prove again that while there may sometimes be rhythm and rhyme in love and marriage, there is rarely reason...
PEOPLE, artists and non-artists alike, have tended to look on artists and their work as something very special, something very much out of the ordinary humdrum existence most of us lead. In truth, artistic creation is no more mystical or magical an experience than setting up equations, and almost as easy to understand. The subject matter--and perhaps even more important, the artistic process--is intrinsically bound to everyday life. The relationship between life and art should be a symbiotic one--art feeding on life and vice versa. This realization, philosophy professor Nelson Goodman argues, is essential, and essentially...
...most important thing about computers is something that few of the people who think they aren't directly concerned with computers realize. This is the almost unplumbable truth that the computer is capable of carrying out ANY numerical calculation. And they don't call mathematics the universal language for nothing. Just about everything can be quantified; just about everything can be manipulated by the computer...
...help you attain enlightenment is the point of this supplement. To help you, and to warn you of the obstacles facing serious seekers after truth. For not only does our false linear cause and effect way of thinking promote illusion, but people are actively trying to keep you from becoming one with the universe. They try to use you for their own ends, to control you. They use machines to run your life (pg.2). They use newspapers to promote false ways of thinking (pg.3 and the front page of today's Crimson). They have ads to make you do what...
...posthumous honor is a tribute to his passion for truth; as the current cant goes, he told it like it was. Almost alone among the discredited (figures of the '30s, Orwell, with his clarity, charity and honesty, is undiscredited. He can be read today by the young without boredom or nausea-despite the fact that he was in most ways as square as an unsoaked sugar cube. Reading him today is like taking a guided tour through the seven circles of the political hell that Western Europe built for itself on the bases of the Depression, (the Spanish Civil...