In the 21st-century United States, we have become so accustomed to the idea of a research university that we rarely think about how genuinely astonishing it is to have these strong, durable, truth-seeking institutions in our society.
But for the past decade, there have been three surprisingly durable truths to life in the NRL.
What we want now is a major artist — a Manet, Picasso, Pollock, Warhol, or Beuys — who will manifest durable truths at the core of inevitable hypes and hyperboles.
Distrusting the white-collar world of abstraction, these men find their only durable truths in the physicality of the street, be it violence or labor.
Simple enough pleasures, and durable enough truths, that held up pretty well to re-examination.
Schumacher used to say, a "meta-economic" truth--that is bigger and deeper and, oh, so much more durable than any truth that will ever be discerned from the most expert reading of the Dow Jones tea leaves.
The items, mainly on loan from the British Museum and British Library as well as the Musee Guimet and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, include an extremely rare Diamond Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist text deemed as durable as a diamond for penetrating the ultimate truth.
For an establishment variant of this larger "truth" behind the crime, there was the durable Pat Buchanan, writing on American Conservative's web site.
He wants to find the truth about his father, but this truth is not of a simple, durable composition.
