Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From then on Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...
...festival, which came to an end this week, was a cultural rather than a popular or financial success. Hutchins had set the spiritual tone of the gathering: "The major concern of thoughtful citizens today is the lack of serious consideration for the application ... of the basic human standards best represented in the humanities-philosophy, religion, ethics-and the social sciences...
Schweitzer and Ortega. Both were optimistic about the status of human standards in the world today; both stood in agreement that man is good, and that, through his own efforts coupled with divine aid, he could better himself and his lot. Ortega welcomed, as normal and healthy, the doubts that now & again besiege humanity. Schweitzer felt that mankind was able, in fact dutybound, to take on fuller responsibilities...
...Ohio, a statute was passed and signed providing that "treatment of human ills through prayer alone by a practitioner of the Christian Science Church, in accordance with the tenets and creed of such church, shall not be regarded as the practice of medicine." This new law made Ohio the 48th state of the U.S. to legalize the public practice of Christian Science as a healing...
...postponed lunch to operate on an emergency case. To what end? the assistant asked. The patient was of the coolie class, too starved to live much longer anyway. And who could be sure that death was not better than life? "In these parts," the assistant told him, "we think human life has no value; it will be hard to persuade us that...