Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long and human life so short...
When your roommate's father asks you to come to work in his business and you accept, are you making a rational choice of a career or is someone deciding this important question for you? A frequent human fallacy is to attribute to others the same reactions we ourselves experience to any given set of circumstances...
...such a judge of human bein's, Sol, she cooed...
...with weary spleen that all South Americans are "Yanqui-haters," that all tourist publicity is phony, that the Germans and Japanese are mak-ing mincemeat of U. S. trade. He found a Japanese circus, a Japanese typewriter repairman; Japanese had even gone into the business of making imitation shrunken human heads...
Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...