Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good to be reminded that human dignity and greatness still exist and are still newsworthy. It was wood to have the curtain withdrawn for a little on our newest troubled probings into the unknown, the terrifying vistas and apocalyptic visions of the Atom...
...know is this - and I'm hoping TIME can supply the rest: in the middle of the last century there lived in Maryland a Negro woman, a slave, who felt so strongly on the subject of human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
There are few categories of human endeavor in which men are not discouraged by a lack of response from the world around them. But disciples of new prophets, managers of young Dempseys and mothers of prodigies usually experience nothing more painful than lofty anticipation when the public ignores their secret. Last week, by virtue of the same sort of faith in a sure thing, thousands of U.S. citizens reacted like Geiger counters to a completely unradioactive fragment of political news:' Minnesota's Republican ex-Governor Harold Stassen had started on a vacation...
...that the foe alone is responsible for the fears and that we are merely virtuous defenders of a great cause, beset by scoundrels. There must be a dimension of faith in which, whatever our loyalties and however justified our defense of them, we recognize the tragic character of the human drama, including the particular drama of our own day, and call upon the mercy of God to redeem us not from the predicament of democracy but from the human predicament...
Jargon with a Trowel. The Harder They Fall shows a certain verve in the writing; the Eighth Avenue, Manhattan atmosphere and guttersnipe jargon are accurate, though laid on with a trowel; some of the minor characters-trainers, punch-drunk fighters, hangers-on-are human, pathetic and partly credible. Schulberg has hung around the sidelines of boxing for years, but only as a spectator. It is poor luck for him that Eddie Lewis' relationship with his boss is reminiscent of Jack Burden's with his (a fictional Huey Long) in last year's Pulitzer Prize novel...