Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less to me as to his multitude of friends and admirers. His gracious and radiant personality shone throughout all he said and did. In addition we have lost an intelligence that illuminated every subject it touched. He was a great friend and great philosopher because he was a great human being...
...story of little people, faced with a big threat to their usually placid existence, and it is handled accordingly--without melodrama or bombast. There is no etching of characters and situations in black and white--each person emerges as an individual, and even the German soldier is a human being rather thn a symbol of evil...
...backwards for material and forwards for guidance, but which was finally performed in the solitude of absolute privacy. This was true both of those actual occasions we locate in men and of those we locate in stones or chemical compounds. We are all, the living and the dead, the human and the subhuman, part of one future. We have different yet similar origins, careers and destinies. Each of us is a cosmic artist making use of the whole welter of the actual and possible to make that private unity which is ourselves most truly...
This week, after months of excited drum-beating by science writers, Kinsey published some findings, in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (W. B. Saunders Co.; $6.50).*Kinsey, father of three children, insists that the 804-page work is "a report on what people do, which raises no question of what they should...
...reputation with the critics has steadily declined, while his popularity with the public has increased. His admirers see Wolfe as a rock-solid, almost primitive spokesman of the American people, whose novels are a grandiose articulation of their own vague, subterranean but insistent attitudes towards the puzzles of human life, and whose writing absorbed the textures, aromas, frustrations, daydreams and tragedies of America with an amplitude unequaled by any writer since Whitman...