Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for a glimpse into the truth of the Viet Nam war. It is disgusting to read nothing but optimistic foolishness that leads one to think that the war can be won in a few weeks. It is time we realize that this war will not be won in a few weeks or a few years, and that it is probably not worth the effort anyway. May I suggest we stop patting ourselves on the back and start kicking some tails...
Most festivalgoers begin their tour of events with a visit to the Albright-Knox's "Plus by Minus," a title that the show's organizer, Douglas MacAgy, amplifies on by citing Sherlock Holmes: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." For the first 20th century abstract artists, the impossible was "the accreted imagery that has been a characteristic of visual art ever since the Renaissance." First to jettison traditional images altogether, as MacAgy shows, was the Russian suprematist Kasimir Malevich, with his revolutionary 1913 drawings of two squares and a circle...
Intuitions are keys to door of truth...
...theme of the News' anti-ROTC campaign was that a university's commitment to truth must transcend any national allegiance, and accordingly that courses sponsored by government authorities should be separated from the university curriculum. The paper urged the B.U.'s ROTC units be given, in effect, the same status as the campus' other extra-curricular activities...
...there is music here, and beauty in the striving: "A blade of grass can be the world ...that the world is nothing without it." And Widerberg shows us the truth in his most masterful technical strokes. With his camera lens wide open, the depth of field is reduced, and all we can see is the blade of grass--Elvira's hair, and, in the end, the gray barrel of the pistol. The background--the rest of the world--is blurred: "When you look at the blade of grass, you can see it and nothing else. The rest of the world...