Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here," the mayor ordered the workmen, and in a few minutes they unearthed something that gleamed whiter than stone. It was a fragment of human bone. In "Bluebeard's castle" they had found what they were looking...
...Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 3,712), scene of last year's riots, two 15-year-old Negroes registered as freshmen at the high school, and five more who attended last year finally announced that they would be back. The day passed without incident. Says Principal W. D. Human, who took over from last year's harassed Principal D. J. Brittain, now on a fellowship at New York University: "Everyone I've talked to in town, and I've talked to a great many, expressed hope for a normal and successful school year...
...merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls no longer needed to be reminded of Bible classes. They came on their bicycles through continual strafing attacks, both on Sundays and weekdays, to pray...
...Noah is the man whom everyone trusts, Winner's other partner, Julius Penrose, is the man who mistrusts everyone. His is the scalded mind of the archskeptic who has supped so full of human follies that the race of man almost makes him retch. Crippled by polio, he has become a corrosive, nonstop monologuist with a tongue like a poisoned dart. Some of his more sardonic thrusts are directed at the Roman Catholic faith, which his wife Marjorie, a guilt-ridden sensualist of masochistic tendencies, is about to embrace. The bitterness of his remarks, including his view...
...been juggling his accounts for years. Confiding his numbing discovery to Julius Penrose, Arthur Winner is jolted yet again-Penrose has known and kept silent not only about Tuttle's secret, but about Winner's as well. Faced with the ineluctable ironies and tragedies of the human condition, Arthur Winner resolves to pick up the pieces and carry on, in the almost existentialist conviction that life may have no meaning but must be lived...