Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfy the cry of panem of circenses as a recent development of Liberty's publicity department. Writing to various editors of various college newspapers the Executive Editor of Liberty hopes to get a synthetic, sympathetic critique of college morals with a no less heartwhole desire than the establishment of truth (vide Plato's Republic) as against opinion (vide Plato's Republic). Of course one might suspect that the Executive Editor had some less noble desire, some arriere pensee, such as answering that cry for bread and circuses. At all events, be he altruist or editor, the letter with its enclosed...
...popular critics to dare remain at all in the humanistic tradition, has written in the current Yale Review an article on Realism in the modern theatre. Here he tries to show that there is, in addition to and more important than the the exterior reality, the internal truth, the truth most akin to the universal. Here is departing not one whit from Aristotelian precepts. The Executive Editor of Liberty might read Stark Young's article. It may be more easily obtained on Park Avenue than the Poetics. At all events, as the editor of a paper which is supposedly attempting...
Explosion. Not until last week did Republican and Communist newsorgans discover and commence to flay the indiscretion of General von Seeckt. Most lamentably Defense Minister Gessler, ignorant of the General's peccadillo, denied publicly what proved to be the truth: that Prince Wilhelm served with the "Hohenzollern Ninth" during the recent maneuvers...
...from Appleton Chapel yesterday morning when the Right Reverend Arthur Foley Winnington - Ingram preached at the 11 o'clock service. The chapel was manifestly too small to accommodate the congregation which assembled to hear the Lord Bishop of London's challenge to those who find a conflict between scientific truth and Christianity...
...Bishop urged his hearers to consider Christianity from all its angles, and to read profusely, for through reading the truth is attained, and truth is the essential basis of religion. That Christianity is supported by reason was one of the prelate's chief contentions. Secondary to the mind, yet intrinsically important are the emotions of the heart, which must be of a high quality in order to assure self confidence...