Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot believe that human nature, even as concentrated in TIME'S editorial rooms, can attain the objectivity and detachment required to escape getting a distinct kick out of such cerebrations. An honest answer would be greatly appreciated...
...Lord, bless the young," was the prayer of Anitsa Sheulic, little Yugoslavian girl, "make them sympathize with all living creatures and all human things. . . . Thus there shall be no hungry and naked children through the whole world; there shall be no more wars or any slaves among us, only brethren helping each other...
...summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided for, so in this case these little animals should be compensated." Mr. Pallotti's reward for the beavers: they should be removed by the Commission on Forests and Wild Life to other quarters, "where they would be able to perform and exercise their...
Heavy as was the cost of the depression in terms of human distress, its intellectual wreckage was almost as great; like those dump heaps of wrecked cars that lie out-side U. S. towns, U. S. brains contained large and unsightly piles of wrecked theories, junked plans, smashed hopes-a wheel off an old 1933 model Technocracy, an axle from Share the Wealth, a busted headlight from Production for Use, fragments of Marxism and the planned economy, half-a-dozen old Utopias that never ran. Here & there under the wreckage were old pieces of twisted slogans, moneychangers...
...lyrics, Hay tries to show up the "human sham" by making candid modern mention of it. But since her verses proclaim the sham "natural" they merely give publicity to what they set out to expose...