Word: truths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kozlov: The truth is born out of argument. You should not always be one . . . There is never a day we don't argue...
...from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed through 40 years...
...violated. What's more, the lieutenant's wife is a well-known tramp about camp. Obviously, the prosecution reasons, she had been a willing partner in whatever happened with the bartender; she had acquired her bruises at the hands of her jealous husband, who had beaten the truth out of her and then rushed off to kill her lover; and she was now lying to save her husband's life. The defense (James Stewart) contends that both husband and wife are telling the truth, and asks acquittal on the ground that the lieutenant had been rendered "temporarily...
...Rerum Novarum in 1891) nor a detailed doctrinal exposition (like Pius XII's Humani Generis in 1950). It is instead notable for the familiarity of its style, the range of its concern and the warmth with which it faces its subject: On Promoting-Under the Impulse of Charity-Truth, Unity and Peace...
When great men show scorn for death, it is a love of glory that distracts their minds from the truth; when ordinary men do so, it is because their lack of understanding shields them from the gravity of their plight...