Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stumbles onto the back alley of America and peers into an ignored and white-washed rotten area that seems to bother no one around. The great intolerance of orthodox Stalinism is then demonstrated in the author's Legree treatment of anyone south of the Ohio river--an intolerance of human beings who attempt to solve their problems a little less violently if a little less rapidly...
...build;, that is, we make a real invention. With this we don't express anything, we do not represent anything, we do not symbolize anything. We create the thing in its unique presence. . . . The thing is in Space and is in Time; it exists. Our art is human, profoundly human, since it is the person in all its essence that consciously creates, does, builds and invents...
...Sobel heard what Toronto thought of his action. Said the Globe & Mail: "It is intolerable that the color bar should be imported. . . ." With an eye on the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the Telegram added: "The [Whist Club] players . . . should consider whether at this point in the course of human events it has not become necessary to dissolve-the bonds which have connected them with the [A.C.B.L.]." Said one of the tournament's players: "[Sobel] should know the meaning of persecution." Snapped John McBirney, president of the University of Toronto student council: "They may have that sort of thing...
Harvard Historian Schlesinger* is almost apologetic about this busman's holiday-a review of American books of etiquette from the 17th Century to the present day. "Nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," he wrote; "the rise and progress of courtesy . . . deserves attention...
Those who have seen the defeat of the spirit caused by illiteracy among immigrants or our pitifully defiant Armed Forces illiterates have hailed Richards' work on human grounds alone. But any suspicion of his activities as fuzzy intellectualism was banished during the war when jutting-jawed, pragmatic military men beat a path to his Peabody House office, asking for aid. In one ease Richards and a small staff, in a whirl of activity, taught 1000 Chinese naval officers enough Basic English to operate a ship-in six weeks. Here he also made films with Disney for use in Armed Forces...