Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More direct is Progressive Education's 20-year-old international organization, the New Education Fellowship, on whose executive board is Frederick Redefer. Says the Fellowship: "We must regard as an obstacle to our educational aim any organization of society that permits of the oppression or exploitation of some human beings by others, whether within national boundaries or across them...
Elimination of tooth decay, they warned, is not the task of cooks. "We do not advocate the deletion of cereals from the diet, but rather suggest that measures be directed to removing or inhibiting the offending carbohydrate fractions prior to human consumption." No cure for adults, a strictly regulated diet will be of value only to children. Said the Brothers Belding: "You have to catch them young...
...Kurt Goldstein, Professor of Neurology at Columbia University, will lecture on "The Significance of Abstraction for Normal Life," at Emerson Hall, at 4:30 p.m. This is one of a series of lectures by Professor Goldstein, as William James Lecturer on Philosophy and Psychology, on the general topic "Human Nature" in the Light of Psychopathology...
Lincoln is the most living and appealing figure in U.S. history because he expresses with the greatest glow the national dream of democracy and freedom. He is therefore, in addition to being a warm, sturdy, exciting human being, a permanent symbol who serves U.S. drama as the house of Atreus served the Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready...
...unshakable sense of doom. But Sherwood's chief interest in Lincoln is spiritual, not psychological: it consists of vividly, though not altogether convincingly, tracing Lincoln's growth from an indolent, unambitious "artful dodger" who wanted to be left alone, to a suddenly aroused and embattled champion of human rights. And Sherwood is interested in that Lincoln for what he can symbolize to the world today...