Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associates professionally, as it were, with perverts, hopheads, gunmen and bums of all kinds, and he sometimes gets in the habit of popping them a few times, in the privacy of the station house, just for their own good. Being human, he may take a certain natural satisfaction in his prowess and may even decide that he is helping create a better world. He is encouraged in this by the fact that society seldom pays any attention; society, in fact, seldom hears the sound of scuffling, the grunts and the thud of fist on flesh...
...first step in any conservation plan should be a return to 85 percent milling of wheat flour," the professor said. Only about 70 percent of the food value of the grain is currently earmarked for human consumption, the remainder going to live-stock feed production...
Much valuable psychopthic material has been provided for Ph.D. theses on the reaction of the human mind and hand to the printed page. Some people, it has been discovered, read backwards. A few rare specimens are prompted to write backwards in the text they are perusing...
...Mountain Fell is largely a triumph of perfected style. Its legend-like tone and natural, village-talk dialogue give it a quality of universality, keep it, in spite of place names and details of locale, from becoming merely a Swiss regional tale. It poses no "problems" except basic human ones which turn on love, fear, faith, generosity and loyalty. U.S. readers will get here what few other recent books have given them-a genuine literary experience...
...Disaster of Lawrence. A fellow critic has called Pritchett "the most humane of critics . . . not looking for perfection but for the essential life in a book." The "essential life," for Pritchett, is usually blunt and British. With such novelists as Lawrence, Wells and Conrad he is less humane. Wells, he writes, lived in a "new world of agitating chemicals, peculiar glands, and obliterating machines. . . . He did not attribute anything but an obstructive value to human personality." Conrad had a feeling for real life, but obscured it with a "dubious Romantic over-world." Lawrence's "phallic cult was a disaster...