Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this performance of the Mass is probably the finest that can ever be produced with human forces and consequent human imperfections. To play and sing the music must be a tremendous task; even to hear it is a harrowing experience. The vastness of the work removes it from ordinary life. Beethoven's method of worshipping God transcends all formal limits; to him the capability of his players and the capacity of his audience are both unimportant. Hence all the more honor is due the Glee Club, the Choral Society, and the Orchestra for reaching a new peak in their joint...
...primeval western world fashioned fairly useful implements, the early Burmese peoples had extremely crude contrivances with which to secure their food and protect themselves. When the geologists examined chipped rocks in the gravel of the Irrawaddy Valley, they had great difficulty determining whether natural or whether human forces had been at work...
...human heads have been secured from the village of Tambunum in New Guinea on the upper Sepik River, where white men have seldom been and which is one of the few regions in the world where head-hunting still flourishes. These heads once belonged to enemy tribesmen and were set up in the village "men's house," a ceremonial building for men only, to drive away evil spirits...
...examples of towns Dr. Giedion used Paris, Bath, Nancy, and Versailles. "The importance of Versailles doesn't lie in its royal splendor but in its clear approach to the problem of human living," he said...
...liberalism. The number of the scholarships appears to be sensible; it approves assistance without basing assistance on an impractical and overemotional scheme; it condemns the Nazis with caution. Moreover, it points the course for other colleges in this country to pursue. For a widespread assertion of our faith in human tolerance the colleges must unite in the raising of funds to care for students fleeing a barbarous dictatorship. Then, Harvard's endeavor to help, eloquently termed by President Conant "a symbol. . . to show by deeds as well as by words that the humanitarian basis of democracy is not dead," will...