Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the damage and loss of human lives, the government fretted over the earthquake's possible effect on the vital tourist trade. Although only 10% of U.S. tourists pulled out, the government tried to play down the earthquake. Official figures put the national death total at 67, and even when eleven more bodies were unearthed in Mexico City one day last week, the official count stayed the same. More likely fatality figures: about 200, all but 50 in Mexico City...
Catholics and Jews, as Father Davis sees it, are involved in human history through centuries of what he calls "coexistence" in Spain, back to the Dark Ages, the Roman arenas, "and on to Abraham." And in the modern world both share many common characteristics: dietary rules, a sense of the sacredness of ritual and the transcendence of God, respect for learning and human reason. Both have been discriminated against and, "in some circles, are still regarded as aliens...
Marie Antoinette is one of the most written-about women in history-and for the best writing reasons. Her story combines two unfailing narrative ingredients: a fairy tale flashing with all the diamond glint of palaces and courtiers, a horror story of human cruelty and blood. The combination is so compelling that the life of the lovely Austrian princess who lived an infuriatingly frivolous life and died an endearingly brave death can be told and retold with remarkably little attention to the social upheaval that doomed...
...audacity and insolence, nor does he try to cover her multitude of sins. But by the end of his book, it is not the echoes of Marie Antoinette's duplicity and follies that ring in the reader's mind. It is the gruesome howls of human beings panting and thirsting for human blood...
...left, the banks of the Charles, bathed in the soft light of a July evening, were covered with an undulating mass of human bodies, and the romantic mixture of perfume and sweat nauseated him slightly. "Obscenity everywhere," thought Vag, and he slowly turned up Plympton Street, feeling a bit out of place in such a cruel setting...