Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your voice some day, Al." Instead, the gradual development of a star personality is shown, with little sentimental emphasis on either the ups or the downs. Again, although there is the usual trumped up battle between the hero's music and his wife, it is less ferocious and more human than in the Gershwin and Porter epics, and ends on a breakup instead of in a clinch. Best of all is the tasteful portrayal of Jolson's mother and cantor father, who are given some dimensions instead of being molded into a minority group comedy type...
...mystics, no religion is long for this world. For the ultimate purpose of religion is not right behavior, or right opinion, or any earthly glory or virtue. Its purpose is that of a window through which the selfless eye may see its way to that final necessity of the human spirit, Godhead and immortality...
...Benedict teaches us another truth often proclaimed, seldom practiced today -that human labor is not something ignoble . . . but a thing that should be loved as something worthy and welcome. The life of work, whether in fields or workshops or intellectual occupations, does not degrade but ennobles men . . . turns them not into slaves but masters and molders of substances surrounding them. . . . Hence all ... must consider that they are serving not only themselves but also the existence and well-being of the whole of civilized society . . . that they work not through compulsion but from love...
When the servant had brought in the lamp and drawn the thick curtains against the night, there was nothing that so pleased the Victorian as to lay back his head on the antimacassar and curdle his comfortable blood with fiction about fiends in human form. So Victorian Novelist Wilkie Collins, who dispensed such fiction, was not displeased, one moonlit night in the 1850s, when a beautiful lady, robed all in white, ran up to him on a lonely road, screaming for succor. She had escaped, explained the white lady, from a fiend who had held her in durance with...
...happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows out of ordinary human tensions and becomes most intense when the explosion is an inner discovery, unspoken and unseen...