Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much I can say. Statements like, "Well, that George Hughes is pretty good, and his brother's not bad either," or "Late season collapses are one thing, but Harvard is ridiculous," although true, won't really tell you why the team wins or loses. I can spout some Truth after seeing one contest (the 6-5 overtime loss to RPI), but it's not fair to judge anyone on the basis of what he does in decrepit Troy, N.Y., where Zamboni-watching is more exciting than the nightlife...
...International Style was the end of history. Its "functionalism," which correctly saw that mass production was destroying handcraft and, with it, ornament, was always colored by this millenarian fantasy. Johnson, whose relationship to Mies van der Rohe is complicated and Oedipal, argues that "Mies believed in the ultimate truth of architecture, especially of his architecture: that it was closer to the truth than anyone else's because it was simpler and could be learned. He felt it could be adapted on and on into the centuries, until architecture bloomed into the great science he thought it should...
...fact that some 300 million of the world's 700 million Catholics live in the region. As he observed in his Christmas address to the College of Cardinals: "Some say that the future of the church will be decided in Latin America, and there is some truth in that...
...narcissism nearly everywhere, in the buzz words of the "human potential" movements, in the "pseudo needs" created by advertisers for restless consumers, in the adulation of celebrities whose only claim is that they are well known, in business and government that have a greater concern for credibility than for truth. He warns of creeping trivialization that downgrades history as nostalgia, and educators as socializers rather than conveyors of knowledge. Literature is trivialized by absurdists, emotions by promiscuity, and in the locker rooms of professional athletics, Lasch sniffs the odor of terminal degradation. Sport, once the arena of heroes and spiritual...
...that book was written by the late James Agee, whose eager eyes peer out from a 1937 portrait that is one of the 219 remarkable photographs in this long overdue retrospective volume. No captions are needed to display the range and depth of Evans' artistry. He knew the truth that lay in the luminous surfaces of things, whether they were the grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical...