Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neither human nor divine...
...there is no one quite so sentimental as a 200-lb. ex-sportswriter (a type who can weep real tears over a carload of redundant wrestlers). Gallico's cat Thomasina should go down in literary history as an outstanding example of the pathetic fallacy, i.e., the attribution of human emotions to nonhuman objects. There are whole libraries of books that follow the fallacy like blind bird dogs-books about elephants, Teddy bears, toads, and even, in one notorious case (E. B. White's Stuart Little), mice. In the present case, the Gallico Cat ("Who Thought...
...book attempts a subtle defense of individualism, and of the individual's search for meaning in life. While nursing wounded in a service hospital, the heroine muses: "One needs to believe in essential values, in life's force, in beauty, in truth so that they-and not human authority-may lead you up sure paths...
What effect the bootleg publication of his novel will have on Author Pasternak, 67, is questionable. Probably he will survive; he has been out of favor before (in 1946 for bourgeois tendencies), presumably knows how to bow to "human authority" as well as his colleague, Novelist Dudintsev. When asked at a recent diplomatic cocktail party what would become of irksome Author Dudintsev, Dictator Nikita Khrushchev replied blandly: "I intend to see him. He will continue to write, but there will be nothing for which world capitalists will sing his praises...
...said that the Dunster House Council Representative, Carl S. Sloane '58, talked to the Committee about the proposal. Sloane asserted that in terms of "human nature," the Council felt its members would do a better job if they were members of the House Committees, since they would feel "responsible" to both organizations...