Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...echo Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the exultant Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment of Greater Germany, cried: "The number of suicides in Vienna remains the same; the difference is that, whereas before Germans committed suicide, it is now Jews! . . . I know some say 'the Jew also is a human being.' Just that word 'also' is the best indication of what the Jew really is! ... Our racial theory is the sole basis for the correct solution of the Jewish problem...
...fishermen were shocked speechless with surprise -for at the end of the hook was not a shark, but a Lagosian woman whose long, wet hair was matted about her face. She was a fish hooks seller in the village . . . and part of her body was sharklike, the other part human...
...permitted to reembark for the U. S., was obliged to strip, scrub and dress in lice-free clothes. Only by such drastic means could Army doctors be sure of preventing the transmission to the U. S. of the louse-carried disease of typhus. And once typhus appears among dirty human beings huddled together in unclean army camps, trenches, jails, poorhouses, hospitals or ships, they die by thousands. Typhus, more than cold or Russians, made Napoleon retreat from Russia in 1812. In 1914 typhus killed 150,000 Serbs and 30,000 of their Austrian prisoners. The plague spread to Russia, where...
From Spain last week came another warning. In a report to the New York Times, Alfred Winslow Jones wrote about "the increasingly dirty and hungry people, of warrens where many civilian refugees are housed. ... In an incompleted factory building which, had it been designed for human habitation, might have accommodated 500 persons . . . were quartered 9,000 refugees. . . . With no soap, no plumbing, no heat and excessive overcrowding, the place was foul. Women and children clotted and festered and hungered together. . . . Dirt, scabies and vermin exist to such an extent that typhus might become epidemic among them if it were...
Many critics call the turn by glibly referring to The Sea Gull as a tragedy of frustration. But the play is tragicomedy, impaling human foibles as well as hearts. Tender but ruthless, The Sea Gull smiles upon the too-utterly-utter side of the artistic temperament, reflects the conflict between two incompatible generations. It exposes Trigorin's rueful egotism: "On my tombstone," says Trigorin, "they will say: Here lies Trigorin, who was a good writer, but not so good a one as Turgenev." It exposes Nina's swimming-eyed romanticism. Chekhov suggested, though Actor Lunt has not heeded...