Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn a deaf ear to music and only see what happens in front of or around the music. On the other hand if one should remove either from the combination, it's doubtful if the other would survive. I would say it's a problem which like the human equation, must be put in the catagory of abstractions. Basically, music is what bands offer and the peculiar twist which in recent years is evidenced, naturally, is a result of encouragement from the public through the medium of the box office...
...world and its leaders must look beyond the present war. Blood is being spilled; and the statesman is less than human who is not trying to achieve, at this terrible cost, a world in which peace can endure. Neither is he a true statesman if he does not realize that, under the present system of the balance of power and economic nationalism, such a world is impossible. He must pin his hopes on a world federation; and though men have tried this before and failed, he must realize that to say it is impossible is to say that...
...making a packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time of growing violence, growing paradox, growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County, Va. ... of Southern planters and merchants being $200,000,000 in debt to the North and chiefly to the money controllers...
...step, chapter & verse, Carl Sandburg sets him forth as indeed the merciful, mystic and benign being of the monuments, but as also-and with profound consistency-a hard, circumspect, far-seeing politician and manager of men. Lincoln's speeches and writings were the work of a remarkably pure human intellect, always questioning, circumscribing the area in which he could be positive, saying once: "In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity." His difficulties as they are unfolded in detail seem unbearable, his performance a manual...
...article Zimmerman lauda the New England bill people, calling them "a human asset, something which America will probably recognize much mere, in the future than in the past...