Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supporting protest from Nobel Prize-winning Roman Catholic Novelist Fran-gois Mauriac, followed by a solemn declaration signed by all French Catholic cardinals and archbishops warning "all those whose mission it is to protect persons and things" that "in the present crisis" they "have the obligation to respect human dignity and rigorously to avoid all excesses contrary to the law of nature...
...noted the uniqueness of the new business ethic by contrasting it with the policy of large trusts in the early New Deal era of placing "property rights over human rights...
...concert concluded with the late Anton Webern's Three Songs, Opus 23 (1934), excellently sung by Sarah Jane Smith. In them Webern applied his own refined pointillism to the atonal technique of Schonberg, with dubious success. I happen still to be old-fashioned enough to think that the human voice should not be asked to do everything an instrument can do. I find this disjunct kind of vocal writing, in which there are only angles instead of lines, highly ungrateful. The chief interest in these songs for me lies in rhythmic precision; and this in turn is best achieved...
...conclusion, however, is a very sensible one. Damon becomes a Christian; "It's the myth that counts . . . Truth, what it is but our meanings housed in myths." "If there was no such man as Jesus there should have been." Christianity is the greatest of all poems, much of human history going into the making. Fisher believes the problem to be eternal, basic to the nature of man. The novel ends with Damon's son deciding, "For this was a man's quest, this search for God. He suspected that the time would come, someday, when he would have to rise...
...prevents him from begetting the heir he desperately wants. But the lover turns out not to be of Sir Clifford's liking--he is the gamekeeper on the Chatterley estate. The affair, the audience is told with great care, teaches Lady Chatterley that the only possible union between two human souls and the only possible love is sensual, and at the end she leaves her husband to marry the gamekeeper...