Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...childhood, Believer Joad worships regularly at his parish church in Hampstead or at the church near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses a deep and essential insight, into human nature...
...dams) beaver. The male weighs about 25 pounds. The female is smaller, and wears her breasts on the side of her back; she can refuel her young, like a navy tanker, while swimming on the surface. Both sexes have four large, orange-red teeth which can sever a human finger in a single snap. If you insist on playing with a nutria, Wildlifer Ashbrook advises, pick him up by the tail and hold him at arm's length...
What he promises but doesn't deliver (in either volume) is a "human" Madison. Perhaps no biographer could. The Father of the Constitution was once described as a man who never said or did an indiscreet thing. And though Brant is scornful of those who have established his hero as a "disembodied brain," he has exhumed nothing that resembles flesh & blood. Madison was a prodigious worker, a great student of government and one of the best-read men of his time. But most readers will find him a pretty cold fish who swam best in muddy political waters. Brant...
...Library of Congress. To read them, Brant had to brush up on his French, went so far as to ask former French Ambassador Bonnet to check a point for him in the French archives (Bonnet obliged). Brant's new researches haven't helped him to prove the "human qualities of mind and emotion" he claims for Madison, but they have made possible a solid job of history in an era once handsomely covered by Historian Henry Adams but neglected since...
...agents in Shanghai, Cairo, Beirut, Havana, each of whom is caught up for a moment as the great stream of pursuit sweeps by, and then slips away again into the quiet backwaters of his own little world. "To the Ends of the Earth" is, in fact, a story of human cooperation against a common enemy. It knows no international boundaries. And above all, it is true...