Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TEMPER: "I would be less than human if I were always a Pollyanna...
...built any roads at all. Singh declares that the U.S. antimalaria campaign has brought more mosquitoes into Nepal than ever. When asked about the giant Rapti Valley reclamation project, he merely shrugs, for he comes from a different part of the country: "That is an isolated place unfit for human beings...
...analyst of his native Midwest, Newsman Martin has turned his fact finding into eight books, but flopped the one time he tried a novel. (The publisher sent him a one-sentence comment: "You had better stick to nonfiction.") Says Martin: "I've always been interested in the individual human being and what happens to him in a society that really doesn't work as well as it should. I think that's the common denominator of my work. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I think...
...genius for organization now celebrated its most gruesome triumph." Against this, Brand's only weapons were bravery and bribery. The Nazis had discovered that Jews could not only be killed but bought and sold. Thus, by a cruel twist, Brand found himself a specialist in the traffic in human flesh...
Brand's story, documented to the hilt of an SS dagger, should be required reading for those who cling to the notion that the human race is essentially a friendly society. One of the incidental ironies of the book is that when a government is totally corrupt and evil, as was that of the Nazi regime in Europe, financial venality is a mitigating virtue...