Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt who will that tonight I portray the ceaseless yearning of their hearts and the ambition of their minds. Let him who will, be he economic tyrant or sordid mercenary, pit his strength against this mighty upsurge of human sentiment now being crystallized in the hearts of 30,000,000 workers who clamor for the establishment of industrial democracy and for participation in its tangible fruits...
...Well, what's happening on my farm is happening all over the country The nation has been put on wheels. Everything is mobilized. Through the internal combustion engine the number of human beings who have been thrown out of employment is beyond counting. What are we going to do about it? Well, all I can say about it is that we had better keep our heads as best we can. To my mind it's the most serious proposition in the economic life of the world today...
...Public education is involved inevitably in the contemporary struggle for democracy. The public school should remain loyal to the great ethical conception of human equality. It should acquaint the rising generation with the full meaning of democracy in American history; explore and examine fearlessly all proposals for the reconstruction of our life and institutions...
TRANSITION'S editorial heading for its stories was PARAMYTHS, presumably meaning disordered or abnormal myths. That the sane human mind instinctively tries to communicate intelligible ideas and that the production of long stretches of gibberish is extremely difficult was proved by the fact that most of TRANSITION'S prose-writers kept breaking through into something like sense and good syntax...
...Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters, and occasionally his slapstick is effective. On the whole, however, though readers could not have asked for a louder burlesque, they could have wished for a funnier...