Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever seen in the movies, the authentic hunting scenes convey vividly the feelings of two kinds of men when faced by a charging lion. This immediacy adds a great deal to the story, and before long the audience is participating in both the lion-hunting by day and the human drama of the night. The end of the picture is disappointing, but the climax is past, so it doesn't make much difference. Except for one or two incongruous touches in the portrayal of Macomber's cowardice, you'll like "The Macomber Affair...
Delegates from the Harvard Chapter of the International Student Association will join college students throughout greater Boston today in the Eighth Annual Spring Conference of the association, which will feature a keynote address by P. C. Chang, Chinese delegate to the United Nations, on "The U. N. and Human Rights...
Chang, formerly a visiting professor at American and British universities and one-time Chinese minister to Turkey and Chile, will base his speech upon the wide knowledge of the problems of minorities which won him the vice-chairmanship of the U. N. Commission on Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt, chairman of the commission, has worked closely with the Chinese delegate on this important phase of U. N. activities...
...ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill) he has pointedly noted in the Village Common model of Concord and Lexington a bygone "human scale small enough for each citizen . . . a scale which we have lost...
Vincent Starrett's The Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King...