Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though human rights...
...Human Rights Lullaby
...were big, he turned out western comics; if crime dramas were packing them in, well, he wrote cops-and-robbers stories. In the early '60s though, Lee got bored and began creating his own characters. The result: superheroes with personality as well as power, saviors who suffered from human frailties...
Fortunately, Shakespeare's plays are fueled by more than a consummate mastery of the English tongue. They search out what Hamlet called "the motive and the cue for passion" and release characters like comets blazing across four centuries without extinction. In the universality of its human concerns and its storytelling entrancement, any of Shakespeare's front-rank plays redeems the flaws of the players...
...Returned to England in late January of 1891, Conrad was now back at square one, only older. Possibly, his experiences in the Congo turned him into a writer, or at least gave him a sense of the indifference and negligibility of human life which he could shape into his fiction. But it was only one ingredient. What he had experienced as a boy in Poland, as a child in his parents' exile, then in his years as a seaman and later in the waters around Borneo-all of these episodes taken together created what Conrad knew about human depravity...