Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most innovative dramatic device Bolt uses in A Man for All Seasons is his narrator, who, in his various guises, keeps calling attention to our kinship with him. We might want to identify with Sir Thomas, Bolt intimates, but in truth we are no better than the jury that condemns him. In this production, we in fact become that jury--it is to us Cromwell turns as he urges conviction. In our role as jurors, we judge More guilty; but in our role as audience, we understand his motives for dying, and judge their dramatization a success...
Guided by the new catalogue, students will shun pre-professional courses and embrace the arts, the humanities, the "impractical" social and physical sciences. Why settle for the cash value of an M.D., J.D., or M.B.A. when the return on truth is infinite? It is an Adam Smith dream: the profit motive, at play in the market place of ideas, will save liberal education...
...handful of leftist newspapers already in existence are usually narrowly sectarian and interested mainly in pushing their own arcane dogma as the one and only Truth. But as Weinstein puts it, In These Times is a "political publication, not a religious one." (Curiously enough, the paper was originally called "These Times" until a copyright search turned up a Seventh Day Adventist publication by that name...
What harm was done, in truth?Some of the Nation's trappings were repossessed by some of the Nation's true rulers. On the other hand, I am more than a little Queasy about the prospect of a similar scene - only magnified 10, 20 or an unimaginable number of times. There will not, Sir, I warrant, be enough Trappings to go around...
...excavation." If in his daily round of mail and meals, of musings and memories, Hough feels a pronouncement coming on, he shares it. "A house needs its identity of habitation," he thinks on returning from the walk, "yet I put beside this fact another I have tested for truth-the joy at last of arriving home and finding no one there." Sleeping arrangements lead to an account of a lifetime's switching around of bedrooms in his house. "One general problem I share with so many of my age," Hough admits. "It is called 'getting through the night...