Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Until, now, the most enlightening work on Keats has been the scholarly Life of Sidney Colvin; the stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...truth of the matter is, however, that this inefficiency is inherent in a democratic state. Devise any scheme which separates the law making body from constant dependence on the mass of the people, and the result is a trend away from the principles of pure democracy. And it is upon those theories that the whole framework of American government is based. Its evils must be accepted with its blessings...
...same end. There is scarcely a civilized country today which has not been draws into this Student's League of Nations whose envoys are not diplomats but scholars, and whose common interest is not mutual distrust sprung from national ambition, but mutual understanding sprung from a common love of Truth...
...Coolidge's partisans set up one screen on which they paint his portrait in heroic lines, bold, strong, silent. His antagonists set up another screen on which they limn him as futile, vacillating, insignificant. What of the truth is not hidden by one screen is completely masked by the other...
...Dominions had declined to attend an Imperial Conference on the subject. This, in turn, was regarded as unfavorable and a project was in hand to drop the security proposals out of the drafted protocol and refer the whole question to this year's Assembly. There was probably no truth in the report that Britain would offer France a separate security pact...