Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...
Some Europeans had a deep sense of the human import of the Philadelphia story. Wrote Rome's II Tempo: "What portends there-elephants, bands ... a gigantic circus? [It] is a manifestation of that peculiar exuberance typical of American democracy . . ." A more thoughtful analysis came from Britain's Rebecca West, who was covering the convention for U.S. and British papers, but even Miss West seemed a little out of breath. "I cannot see these demonstrations . . . these sudden bursts of songs and dance as undignified or irrelevant," she wrote. "That is what they used to do in the Middle Ages...
...delegates who gave the convention most of its strawberry festival flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
...committee picked was 42-year-old Psychologist Douglas Murray McGregor. Leathery, spiky-haired McGregor is an expert on "human relations." He was once night watchman at the mission his grandfather founded in the '90s for Detroit's jobless. After studying at Wayne University, he worked in a gas station, later took a Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937, when M.I.T. decided that its engineers should be more than just animated slide rules, it hired Psychologist McGregor to see what he could do about it. He has been there ever since...
...Gathering Storm: the insensate folly of the victors of World War I in allowing the wicked to rearm. Churchill himself steadfastly warned the world against Hitler's progress from conquest to conquest, to crimes without equal "in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened the human record." That he was personally happy during these bitter years-painting, writing and lecturing-does not seem to lessen their pain in his memory...