Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This insult to my personal integrity is unpardonable, especially as Frank's references to taking his bath in public show that his own mind is tortured by a sense of impropriety where the human body is concerned. His whole statement breathes the suggestion that sex subjects are unclean...
...Frank's statement is more corrupting to a young mind than anything I ever wrote and shows how necessary is this battle to remove sex discussion from stupid sniggering embarrassment to the level of any other important topic involving human happiness...
...Edipus, Stravinsky holds, is his nearest approach to pure music, the expression of his most complete emancipation from "story" music. But like most men who set formulas for themselves, he has overlooked the divine spark within himself, the spark that made the Sophoclean drama the greatest of human tragedies. In spite of himself, Stravinsky's (Edipus music is dramatic, tragedy-telling, alarming, dreadsome-in short, as exciting as any catastrophe, as comprehensible as any of the passions by which Fate works its will upon the simple soul...
...Manhattan, Mrs. J. Stuart Tompkins read of Jacqueline, was piqued into bragging of Boulderwall, her Great Dane house dog. Never permitted to bark, Boulderwall's lips have learned to fashion sounds to the pattern of human speech. Intelligent, she answers simple questions in a voice that is clear, and high-pitched...
...scientists, save for Dr. William Temple Hornaday, for 30 years director of the New York Zoological Garden, disbelieved the story of the Eastland horned toad. It might have lived, the questioned authorities say, one, two or even five years within the sealing of the stone, but never a human generation...