Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted was clear: it wanted information about the whereabouts and welfare of the crew. Coupled with U. S. playing down of the case, that looked like leading with the deuce. But it turned out to be a big card. Property rights are controversial in such cases; human rights are plain...
Flexibility is and must be the keynote of the demands of Administration opponents. They are not slaves to figures as is the Administration for they realize that figures obliterate all human and educational values. They are not demanding a certain fixed number of additional "frozen" associates. Rather they are asking that the sole criteria for permanence on Harvard's teaching staff be teaching needs and the capabilities of the men involved. Such a request may sound wildly impossible in view of fixed and unalterable budgetary limitations. But the answer--the panacea--is flexibility in the system of appointment...
...through the whole of it-lawsuits, fraudulent surveying, sabotage, murder, abortive revolution-and, on the side, develops some creditable focuses in the enemy camp and in the mind of an ambitious and unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably, has got what it was after; the lawyer's veering ambitions are disposed of, and Mr. Cheney has done a number of things which even better equipped novelists might envy...
...about these embattled primitives, Author Cheney never once skids into histrionics, bitterness or those tones of romantic compassion which mar the larger talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality (a man's foot pinning...
...Fate of Man, finished last summer, is Wells's pre-war answer to a challenge to describe "the world as I see it and what is happening to it." Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species." For war, once a selective elimination of "the young male surplus," has become through technology a prodigious wastage. Wells sees general enlightenment as the only hope. Against groups that he thinks impede it he lets...