Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must forego the emotional satisfaction of letting our sympathies be swept away either by the evils which surround us or the proposals for Utopias which rain on us from every side. A man must endeavor to be a rational human being without becoming a dehumanized intellectual machine...
First Names. Some of his patients call Dr. McIndoe "God"-and partly mean it. They have seen him take charred, featureless living remains and remake them into presentable human beings. McIndoe goes about his surgical repairs systematically. First, if it is necessary, he grafts on new eyelids and lips so that the patient can, at least, sleep and eat. Next he makes new noses, chins and ears. As many as 40 operations may be required, over four or five years...
...seen these phenomena of nations turning to the arts in their prosperity . . . We in the United States, too, are now seeing this same development take place. It is a form of intellectual compensation or atonement for dominating the world at a given period-tempered perhaps with an all too human instinct for the display of wealth...
Died. Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...
Welles finds Soviet Russia "the most wasteful form of society in human history." Economic progress has been made only at staggering cost-including some 15 million lives. The Kremlin, having an absolute monopoly on all business, fixes absurdly low prices on the goods it buys, absurdly high ones on the goods it sells. Thus Russia employs a sort of perverted capitalism-"capitalism gone totalitarian . . . more ruthless than that of any American robber baron...