Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp observation of such behavior, Dr. Goldstein not only learns how the human brain works, but is able to recognize many symptoms which might otherwise be easily overlooked...
...writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness-all with a suggestion of having been written by a slightly phoney, Dostoievskian pixy...
...tale of Hollywood's lunatic fringe, The Day of the Locust regards its characters as the human equivalent of Hollywood's architecture: "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous...
...adoption of a "militant creed directed to a specific goal," as Germany has done, he found, would lead to he abandonment of "almost all of those basic concepts of the integrity of human life--liberty and individuality. To me there is no escape from the dilemma...
...other hand", he warned, "a study of the past should remind us of the fallibility of all human judgements, even those of the best informed. What appear to be clear-cut issues to one generation may seem nebulous uncertainties to their descendants...