Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Replied Ike: "I refer you to the second term of President Washington, and you look to see what the papers said about him,* and when I compare the weak, inconsequential things they say about me compared to what they say about the man who I think is the greatest human the English-speaking race has produced, then I can be quite philosophical about...
...Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista by putting out a statement criticizing police mistreatment of Cuban women demonstrators. Said Dulles: "I want to say that it is a statement which, perhaps, from a purely technical point of view, may not have been perfectly correct. But it was a very human statement. I'm glad that we have some, in fact I hope many, ambassadors who are not mere automatic machines but who do have sentiments of humanity which they sometimes express without regard, perhaps, to the diplomatic niceties...
...circumstances of the case, have made the kind of statement that he did. I'm confident that, even if it was in certain technical respects perhaps not correct, there will be an understanding of it on the part of the authorities in Cuba because it was a very human thing to do, and, as I say, we want our ambassadors to be human people...
...Whether describing the great homeward march of the Ten Thousand ("So. always cold and sometimes freezing, always hungry and sometimes starving, and always, always fighting, they held their own"), or the achievement of Aeschylus ("In a man of this heroic temper, a piercing insight into the awful truth of human anguish met supreme poetic power, and tragedy was brought into being"), or simply the Greek love of sport, she brought an entire civilization into clear and brilliant focus...
...under the impression that the theatre has something to do with life--by citing for us the French company of Cannes and the classic theatre of Japan, two schools that have nothing to do with 'method' acting. To say that the goal of acting is a perfect photograph of human behavior is to say that poetry must not be poetical or music musical...