Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handicapped by an archaic 1872 charter which made him, like all his predecessors, the Throttlebottom of the city council, he set up mayor's commissions on everything from human relations to smoke abatement. He was a great hand at patching labor troubles. After settling one row, Humphrey proudly explained: "What labor and management need is a catalytic agent. And brother, that's little Hubert...
...dike of the Yangtze falls, we shall let in upon ourselves a sea of troubles in comparison with which our present problems in the Far East will seem a mere unpleasant puddle . . . We do have to recognize that we are at one of the turning points of human history, and that we cannot afford to be wrong in our decisions, since the stake may be not only the independence of China but also the independence of the United States...
However lustily it is beaten back with proletarian hammer & sickle, bourgeois human nature will out. Recently, in an eloquent letter to the editor of Moscow's folksy evening daily, Vechernyaya? Moskva, crusading Lieut. Colonel V. Kotko self-righteously attacked one aspect of this un-Marxian state of affairs-tipping...
Norman Collins, BBC's television chief, thinks Muffin appeals to everyone, including grownups, because his "grandiose ideas always go wrong, and, in that sense, he is the epitome of a whole field of human experience." The London Observer's radio critic has written learnedly of Muffin's "fresh, inventive, convivial" antics. Anthony Smith, one of Muffin's fans, puts the matter more simply: "I am four years old," he wrote. "I love Muffin...
...Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human to appear regularly on the show. Even the patrons of Chicago's bars have come to like Kukla's witty, natural dialogue and such supporting puppets as Beulah the Witch and Fletcher the Rabbit, who has trouble keeping his ears...