Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken in custody by the U.S. Government.) In 1222, only seven years after the barons of England forced King John to sign their Magna Charta, the freemen of Hungary made their own King Andrew sign a comparable document known as the Golden Bull, the first charter of human rights on the European continent. But Hungary, unlike insular England, was set like a bastion between the conflicting civilizations of East and West, and under the strain of constant warring, the rights guaranteed by the bull and the crown had to be fought for again and again. Democracy as it is known...
...compared them with those of machines. Man's sight and hearing are good, he said. The eye responds to as little as three or four quanta of light, and the ear can hear sounds only slightly louder than the ghostly rustle of air molecules clashing together. Both human sight and hearing apparatus, said Lund, are close to theoretical perfection within their class...
...then 9 years old, were killed. But Clinton, 14, the spastic, survived-"by one of those forever puzzling strokes of fate," as Admiral Brown put it. Brown also reported that before he died Jack Peurifoy had come "to really believe that God, in His way which passes all human understanding, was preparing a favorite spot for a little boy who must spend his earthly days as a hopeless cripple...
Such were Allen's tributes to vaudeville. But he loved it, despite its leeching managers and overnight hops, shoebox lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen an affectionate and scrupulous botanist who cherishes every last contortionist, hypnotist, iron-jawed lady, human xylophone, one-armed cornetist, rube comedian, Hindu conjurer and clay modeler who ever played a split week east of Lompo,. Calif. or west of Maiden, Mass...
...calendar of the triumphs, defeats and contortions of the human spirit during...