Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover both suffered severely from the disease of Presidents before they left the White House. Origin of the ailment is Presidential isolation from ordinary human contacts. It is aggravated by the fact that in order to get aids to carry out their policies, Presidents naturally surround themselves with advisers who admire them and sympathize with all their aims. Symptoms of the disease in the sufferer are 1) a growing impatience and resentment of criticism, 2) a feeling more or less openly expressed that he is being persecuted by men with unworthy motives, 3) a determination...
...aims so noble as they were once given to believe. Author Millis, analyst of war psychology, who showed in The Martial Spirit that some wars could be reduced to the terms of comic opera, in Road to War reduces the greatest war yet fought to terms of fallible human nature...
...expanded retelling of the Bible tale. In the 50-odd close-written pages that prefaced his work Author Mann stated his thesis: the story of Joseph, like all very old stories, is a kind of shorthand condensation of legends that point back & back to an era before history, a human dawn unguessed by Science. "Very deep is the well of the past...
...more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point where he is sold to the Ishmaelites and carried to Egypt, Author Mann's deceptively quiet method gathers in whole eons of human history. Says Mann: "It is seldom indeed that beauty and wisdom are combined upon this earth." Last week readers of Young Joseph were lucky enough to find that rare combination...
...Tasting. The grading of canned peas has long been a matter of human taste. Dr. Zoltan Imre Kertesz of the New York State division of food chemistry reported that the proportion of peas soluble in alcohol was a much better index of grade, that many a canner was ready to replace human tasters with alcoholic robots...