Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economics thus presented is no dry affair, rather something to make all that is human in its readers revolt. First we are told that the needs in dollars of hungry peoples come for 1947 to $583 million, then that a sum far greater is being lavished on atomic research by the very Governments which "might or might not act in keeping with their findings" concerning hunger...
Dreams of a Few. It is true that the words "under Hitler things were better" can be heard on every street in Germany, but that is no indication of Nazi-mindedness-it is a human and inevitable harking back to times when things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they...
...Mexican scene with such vivid lavishness that by the time the reader has reached the end of Under the Volcano there is not an unfamiliar bird, beast or grain of dust. But the method which succeeds so well in regard to landscape is unendurable in regard to the human mind and soul. Author Lowry's psychoanalysis-with its interminable interior monologues and devotion to the tiniest turns of thought-results in a prose so coagulated by indiscriminate introspection that it bogs down like the characters it describes...
...study of the anguished conditions of the human soul, Under the Volcano never misses a trick. As a study of living human beings, it buries itself under its own eruptions...
...Harrison as the idealistic journalist can deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...