Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film, Human Growth, will prove a godsend to this country and its children. Not too long after the other 47 states adopt this program, I predict a new era, heralded by a decline in sex crimes and divorce. Take the mystery out of sex, bring it before the eyes, and indecency flies out the window. Let's all endeavor to see that our own states follow suit...
...public on the rights of the individual." To be sure, the first meeting almost broke up in disorder when one man asked, "By what authority does the association claim the right to educate others?" But Irishmen still thought the association was a good idea. The sponsors felt that human rights and freedoms could not be taken for granted; they were worth thinking about. Perhaps it was as much worth doing as anything else that preoccupied people this spring...
...Russians between us have made it very clear that our assistance is not disinterested. But millions of Europeans sensed that only the unique and uncalculated generosity of millions of Americans made Mr. Marshall's offer possible last June. That is still remembered, though not with unalloyed joy. The human heart in the coal valleys of Wales or beside the Po is pretty much what it is in Kansas. People do not like to be excelled, even in generosity...
Water color is one medium at which Englishmen have generally excelled; Nash's handling of it was traditionally deft and cool. He turned his back on the cities and factories, and painted in the serenity of his own garden and his grey-carpeted studio. Almost no human figures marred the privacy of the world he painted. Aside from his technique, and a faintly romantic air, there was nothing traditional about that world; Nash's water colors and oils alike were halfway abstract. "Nature we need not deny," he once explained, "but art ... should control...
...attempt is being made to break the union. It seems to me a disgrace to the College that an organization affiliated with it should act as spearhead in such a movement or should insist on its God-given right to pay as little as 60 cents an hour for human labor in a city where wage rates and the cost of living are the highest in the nation...