Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their behavior was frankly human...
...founded by Peter Waldo, a rich Lyons merchant who vowed himself to poverty, defied the Pope by preaching and interpreting the Bible in 1179. Excommunicated along with numerous other heretics in 1184, he attracted a following who believed with him that it was wrong to take oaths or shed human blood, denied with him the Catholic doctrines of purgatory, indulgence, prayers for the dead...
...quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion of all Dr. Vagts's scholarship: there is little military science, much militaristic posturing, in modern wars...
...surf, and 2) because his surf pictures are "all alike." Although Artist Waugh paints the sea as it looks from not greatly dissimilar rocks near his Cape Cod home, sympathetic critics find his paintings no more nor less alike than the inexhaustible aspects of ocean water. In eschewing all human subjects for the sea, F. J. Waugh is actually akin to abstractionists like Georges Braque, winner of the Carnegie first prize this year (TIME, Oct. 25). Many Waugh admirers would be surprised to know that he occasionally paints, but does not exhibit serious abstractions...
Vainly Witter Bynner pleaded with the gravediggers to bury his mother's body. At length, he and his friends deposited the casket on a shelf and Poet Bynner rushed to a telegraph office to appeal to President Roosevelt to do something about ''this affront to fundamental human rights." To the President and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins he wired that "there should be equitable Federal or State supervision over the status of cemetery employes, protecting them against injustice and also protecting the bereaved and unoffending citizen against a recurrence of such grievous indignity...