Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More and more authors are aware that the businessman is not a duck-billed oddity from another world, but a human being inhabiting the same society as everyone else. The great problem is getting him on paper-and in modern dress, recognizing that business has changed from the freebooting days of the tycoon. What fiction now needs, suggests Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Robert A. Kavesh in a survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear...
...wrote and taught, and as his fame grew the Longfellows entertained most of the famous writers in flowering New England-Hawthorne, Lowell, Emerson. Fanny always saw them plain, just as she had once seen Henry. Emerson's fame could not keep her from writing: "Where has his humanity gone, I wonder . . . He is like a ghost to me. I never feel he cares, from his heart, for any human being." As for James Russell Lowell, she noted that shaving off his beard "takes half the poetry from his face...
...totally effaced self can remain sentient enough to experience the ineffable joy of its oneness with God, in the rare event that it should be achieved. Simone Weil's own most telling religious experience: "a presence more personal, more certain, more real, than that of a human being, though inaccessible to the senses and imagination." It came when she was idly repeating to herself some lines from the English metaphysical Poet George Herbert: "'You must sit down,' says Love, 'and taste my meat...
...Passion for Purity. That she should wish to do so out of mere self-hatred is not inconceivable either, for at one point, she writes: "I cannot conceive the possibility of God loving me, when I feel so clearly that even the affection which human beings evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures...
...Massachusetts as an industrial state," he said, "is peculiarly dependent on the character of its human resources." In addition, many of the important new industries, engaged in research and development, require workers with "analytical skills," he stated...