Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human Link. As a personality, Herb Brownell is probably the least-known member of the original Eisenhower Cabinet; yet none has greater impact on the daily life of every man and woman in a nation of law under the Constitution. Brownell represents the legal arm of the Administration. He passes on almost every action the Government takes or would like to take. All legislation sent to Congress is reviewed by his office. Government contracts involving new policies are screened by him. Agreements with foreign nations go through his hands. His is the responsibility for ensuring a free economy by enforcing...
...bright. He should not offer specific policies, for that brings him down to the level of ordinary politicians. He should cultivate the air of a slippered family man sucking his pipe by the fire, all passion spent. He should claim only the tolerant judgment of one long acquainted with human folly, thus tacitly asserting his own immunity from...
Whipple added, however, that any rocketship to be used in space must provide a suitable human environment. "It is a very serious problem and will take a great deal of study," he continued...
...attempt to Christianize Orwell is no more mistaken than the projections of R. J. Voorhees, for instance, who writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi, "Sainthood is a thing human beings must avoid...
Perhaps without reason, Orwell never thought to call the Spanish War a joke because so many people were deceived by it. "Curiously enough," he wrote, "the whole experience has left me with not less but more belief in the decency of human beings." In following years he kept railing at the verbal beginnings of political dishonesty: Auden's talk of "necessary murder" in Spain, the Munich-era optimism of the Chamberlinian press (described in Coming Up For Air), Pig Napoleon's famous motto that "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." He kept emphasizing that...