Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Internationalism of the Soviet Union since the days of Lenin gives me the right to call this statement a lie. ... A demand for proof of your statement would probably avail me nothing-and embarrass you a lot. Even the ''infallible" editors of TIME are human. So my purpose in writing you is merely to express the conviction that some researcher in Soviet America of tomorrow will uncover this letter in your expropriated establishment and experience a tiny glow of appreciation for my hopeless, but well-meaning effort to confuse the omniscient...
...gave an exciting exhibition of forensic footwork to 500 conferees of the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs. Two months ago national charitarians had cried "Foul!" when, discussing the tax bill with newshawks, the Champion had scorned corporation gifts to charity as a crass method of buying public goodwill. With an artful shift, the Champion now declared that such donations "must come from all those whose developments have accentuated the congestion and the problems of community life...
...parry the recent attacks of Constitutionalists, state a lawyerlike brief in defense of the 600-odd suits now pending against AAA and make a strong bid for 1936 Farm support when he declared: "I like to think that agricultural adjustment is an expression, in concrete form, of the human rights those farmer patriots sought to win when they stood at the bridge at Concord, when they proclaimed the Declaration of Independence and when they perpetuated these ideals by the adoption of the Constitution. Methods and machinery change, principles go on; and I have faith that, no matter what attempts...
...where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less as an art to be practiced than as a message to be preached, placing it on an eminence almost beyond human reach. When William Marion Reedy, after reading the first Spoon River poems, heaped extravagant praise upon them, Masters thought that his friend was being ironical...
...radical nationalism, of bitter resentment that U. S. poets and artists were so consistently abused and neglected by the country at large. In subsequent volumes Masters' poems, characterized by long speculations on vague concepts of life, nature, the soul, contrasted oddly with the concise, concrete images of recognizable human fates that had been the distinction of Spoon River...