Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play alternates between the two time periods and their respective plots. As the modern-day scholars try to deduce what was going on at Sidley Park in the 19th century, the audience is simultaneously watching that plot as it is carried out. Issues of truth, knowledge, accuracy and relativism get very complicated and, well, postmodern. All of which is stimulating, analytically speaking, but it can get dizzying as theater. Thankfully, there is enough good, old-fashioned sexual intrigue in both plots to keep the audience interested, even when the verbal dueling gets ridiculously complex. The script is also full...
...elder couple nastily unloads their marital bloody laundry, referring periodically to their never-present, elusive son, all the while extracting damaging confessions from Nick and Honey. As the evening progresses, the two couples' elaborately deceptive language descends, drink by drink, into the monosyllabism of pain and truth...
...editorial "In Defense of Liberal Education," (Sep. 16) Daniel Choi '94 declares that the goal of a "liberal education" ought to be a healthy vision of "truth and goodness." He suggests that we can achieve such vision by limiting our studies to classical and time-tested philosophy, literature, art and music. To give Choi credit, there may indeed be great value to intense study of Greek philosophers. But this is certainly not "the only true road to wisdom," as he claims. Intense study of any number of religious texts may also be formative of healthy character; and perhaps the truest...
...that would suggest there was an epistemologic collapse 30 years ago in the understanding of why transplants work," says Starzl. "This was a classic example of how you can get caught up in a snowstorm of details--learning more and more about less and less--and let the great truth escape...
...great truth Starzl now sees is this: "The mystery was not about [the body's] rejection." It is about the intermingling of cells, the achievement of a peaceful truce between the patient and the donated organ. Rather than beating the patient's immune system into submission with drugs until it accepts the donor organ, Starzl realized, the trick is to convince both the body's defense mechanism and the new organ that the intruder is really "self," a recognized member of the host body...