Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good thing that human feeling should show itself in deeds, and not merely in verbal indignation. The plan for refugee students at Harvard provides a way of action, and it should receive the vigorous support of every member of the Harvard community...
...commonly called outrages. They are properly so called by people who believe that decency in behavior is one of the elementary rules of action for civilized community is built. They are outrages politically as well as morally. But they are outrages first of all because they offend normal human feeling; it takes pathological terms to describe the men who can dictate such acts, as well as the man whose "healthy" instincts thrive on committing them. If we bring ourselves to any vivid realization of them they become unbearable...
...what is a man to do when his human feeling, his civilized sense of decency, and his explicit democratic principles are outraged? If he is an academic person or, like college students, under the influence of academic persons he does not immediately act, he "takes thought." But even a man of thought may act. And if he acts soon enough, he may help matters...
...command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human...
...materialistic society pulls them one way, their instincts another. But in Rocket to the Moon psychological dislocations result from a clash of temperaments, a lack of drive. And Odets will not stay with his plot. He pursues a mystical theme which overrides it: the need for love to vitalize human lives. Inoculated with this virus, his characters cease to be individuals in a specific situation, turn into orators, poets, philosophers who halt the action to harpoon the cosmos...