Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alleged that the Joint Council Building Assn. had expended $16,718 for building payments and alterations when it "had in truth expended a substantially lesser sum." Judge George H. Boldt ordered a bench warrant issued immediately for the 63-year-old union leaders' arrest. He set bond...
...that reading period has finally caught up with recalcitrant students, Crimeds will narrow their scope of activity in preparation for the imminent Moments of Truth. Therefore, as each editor emerges from his hole to begin an intensive assault upon reading lists, the CRIMSON will limit production to five days a week, omitting normal Saturday publication...
...Farquhar is of course entitled to his opinions about the question of religious interest at Harvard, and his conjectures about how and why the Newsweek article was written are interesting. But if he is concerned to get at the truth about the question, there are better ways than sniping, sardonic reviews...
What, precisely, is Mr. Levin's "sin?" It is living in a world of words which is "neither dangerous nor implacable;" living in a world in which "nobody suffers more than the loss of a promotion;" living in a world in which "only truth is moral." So, it would seem, Mr. Jenck's desideratum is a dangerous world, a world of considerable suffering, a world in which, apparently, falsehood is moral--in short, the "workaday world...
...belive the masses of the world are guided by greed, power, emotion; those who believe that the "workaday world" is dull, vapid, inessential. There are those who believe that "the world of words," rather than a tissue of shadows and reflected passions," is the only source of intensity, vitality, truth. If, indeed, as Mr. Jencks says, the world is irrational, of what use is the constructive mind, save perhaps to depict it, to "breed one work that wakes." Mr. Jencks' fundamental error, I believe, was in allowing an aesthetic criticism of the proundity of Mr. Levin's method of literary...