Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema a legend on which to base this richly human drama of an old scholar-hero...
...pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means to the flesh it tortures. Mobs stream to shelter from an air raid. After a shellburst in a crowded street, corpses bright with blood and rows of grimy bodies, barely distinguishable from the dusty wreckage, clutter the smashed sidewalk. Stinking human garbage (the street-cleaners have tied handkerchiefs around their mouths and noses), big chunks of it insufficiently wrapped, is dumped on open trucks. Later, as the trucks are unloaded, the still-warm, flexible dead are flopped out like a big catch of fish...
...international radio hookup. Said he. "Quakerism as a way of life partakes of a universal spirit. . . . It is a movement at heart mystical, i. e., seeking fellowship with God. . . . Quakers . . . are bound to keep humble and to recognize their littleness. The Quaker philosophy of life sees in a human spirit something that of all things in the universe, is most like that ultimate reality we call God, Who is Spirit. Spirit like ours cannot come from anything else than Spirit...
From California's high, peaceful Mt. Wilson Observatory last week Dr. Fritz Zwicky reported a tremendous celestial cataclysm which happened 3,000,000 years ago. This was a supernova, a star exploding with suicidal violence. So distant was it that long before the first creatures describable as human beings appeared, the light of the supernova's outburst began flashing toward Earth...
...turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather of a whole human...