Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus divorced from the Gospel of Christ, which clearly and consistently manifests the true character of God as love? By His own acknowledgment, Christ came not to judge the world, but to save the world. Billy Graham and his ilk purportedly lead to Christ's saving thousands of human "souls," but let us pray that Christ (love) will eventually save the Billy Grahams...
...very well, because they fought us in Korea. [But] let me say emphatically that the U.S. need never succumb to the argument of 'inevitability' . . . The reality is that ... a system which seeks to impose conformity is always in danger-and that results from the basic nature of human beings...
...socialists wrongly assume the right of property to be of mere human invention . . . and, preaching up the community of goods, declare that ... all may with impunity seize upon the possessions and usurp the rights of the wealthy. More wise and profitably, the Church recognizes the existence of inequality amongst...
Even before the guard was dead the rest of the Pak Tang's human cargo came swarming out of her holds. At this onrush, one of the government's two functionaries aboard leaped into the sea; the other, after a brief struggle, was wounded and overpowered. Jubilantly, the mutineers ordered the Pak Tang's nine cowering crewmen to change course for Hong Kong and freedom. But despite all threats, the crew refused, and at last, in desperation, one of the mutineers took the helm. Luckily, before the morning was out the Hong Kong Marine Police spotted...
Some of the topics covered by McLellan were: the "blues," that aped the human voice; the rococo-like ragtime; the tension-relaxation principle of "swing," wonderfully illustrated by a piece called "Nobody Will Room With Me"; the small "spasm" or "skifflle" bands of home-made instruments; the staccato phrasing and polish of Bix Beiderbecke; Paul Whiteman, who "tried to make a lady out of jazz and wound up with a eunuch"; the wider tone colors and neo-jungle rhythms of Duke Ellington; the two-beat music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements...