Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student rally which welcomed him to Providence Airport yesterday, Rockefeller commented, "Any student who enjoys the advantages and human dignity of living in this great country should be glad to take an oath which shows his belief in its principles...
Paul Tillich, University Professor--"...in many realms of the scholarly work of a university the religious dimension is revealed, independent of a concrete religious tradition... the religious question is the question of human existence generally...
...problems that arise from the combination of poetry and the stage ... Only MacLeish has found the line that teaches the American language how to go greatly on the stage." "Great" was a word Mr. Ciardi felt he couldn't escape that day. "J.B. is a great dramatization of the human position," he wrote; "great themes can be truly engaged only by great art. MacLeish's triumph is that he has been equal to his great theme...
...earliest effort of Modigliani, Reclining Female Nude, relates directly to his sculptural experimentation in primitive forms, but even here, lyricism, his greatest gift, predominates. From 1911 to 1915, Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment...
...Iron Bars Alone. Says Dr. Hunt: "Our 'humane' practice may be almost as brutalizing and degrading as those of past centuries. It is a rare patient now who suffers cruelties to the flesh, but restraints on the human spirit cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect...