Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants want to destroy the deep-rooted faith of Spanish Catholics is a mystery. Millions of human beings throughout the world have never even heard the name of Jesus; yet Protestants want to continue spending their time and money dividing Christianity...
...policy, as the Western world's foreign ministers prepared last week for a May 11 conference that would presumably lead to the summit, was firmness against Soviet aggression in Germany or anywhere else. But the guide line of U.S. aims and ambitions, as measured by the human spirit since man saw Prometheus steal fire from the gods, was perhaps better characterized by 1) a mellow old man who had spent his life seeking new frontiers of truth and order, and 2) seven young men on the threshold of high adventure...
Ideally, the emotional and intellectual impulses ought to be fused, balanced, reconciled--not necessarily fifty-fifty--but spontaneously and intelligently. What happens to a painting which cannot balance these impulses is precisely what happens to a human being who cannot. The result is an unhealthy state of affairs...
...Million Laws. The law brings out all of man's magnificent mulishness. For centuries, pigs, bulls, dogs and horses were gravely tried and executed if they caused a human death. In 1890 a sardonic Hungarian lawyer left his estate to the relative who could best answer 1) What is eternal and finite on earth? 2) Why do people need money? 3) Why do people carry on lawsuits? Litigation raged for 55 years among his kinfolk; all offers of compromise were rejected; and the case ended only when the estate was wiped out by inflation. The multiplicity of lawsuits...
Industrious Author Tabori, who has written 33 books, 28 feature films and 120 TV scripts, begins this volume in a spirit of friendly inquiry. But as the toll of human stupidities mounts, his tone seems to get more outraged and frenzied, particularly with the follies committed in the name of romantic love and religion. "Stupidity," he groans, "is as vast as all mankind." Is it curable? Yes, says Tabori gloomily, "provided, of course, that someone wants to be cured...