Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist world. It is composed of the people-smugglers, who have made a mechanical - and ruthless - business out of springing refugees from Eastern Europe for a price. The price can be high, both in money (one ring charges $2,500 per escape) and, all too often, in human terms as well. While the smugglers often succeed in getting their clients to the West, their methods some times get other Westerners into serious difficulties...
Rhetorical Blight. Conservative William F. Buckley, who likes Nixon but loves style, delivered a toast in acid. To him, "the striking passages of his address had to do with the human spirit. These passages he could speak feelingly because he is the primary American exemplar of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The astronauts never had such dark and lonely moments as Nixon had, and out of that experience he fashioned a philosophy which is essentially hopeful." Still, he found banal passages: "We are going to turn our swords into plowshares yes yes yes." Buckley also detected...
Testifying last week before Democrat George McGovern's Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Schaefer reported that of 12,000 people examined (mostly in Texas, Louisiana and Kentucky, plus several hundred from upstate New York), 17% were undernourished enough to be considered "real medical risks...
...Point the day of the Normandy invasion and who spent his graduation leave in Father's headquarters, has not only pored over the documents but revisited the battlefields. He has interviewed soldiers from both sides and all echelons, from squad leaders up to Field Marshal Montgomery. For the human or Willie-and-Joe side of war, though, the reader will still have to go to the likes of Cornelius Ryan (The Last Battle). Eisenhower earned a master's degree in English from Columbia, while his father was university president, with a thesis on The Soldier as a Character...
...life that has charm reminiscent of J. D. Salinger. It soon becomes a vivid nightmare world of putrefying animal corpses and menacing gangs of anonymous attackers. In the end, Backward to the Front of the Day is unsatisfying. In his rage against God, Robson stacks so much against his human characters that they topple toward death before they fully come to life...