Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the best translation, John Ormsby's version of 1885, is stiff, and the Peter Motteux translation of 1700, the only one in U.S. print for more than a decade, has been called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original...
Laboratory of Human Development...
Dean-Keppel of the Graduate School of Education last night announced 20 appointments to the teaching and research staff of the School of Education, adding personnel to seven areas of the School's work as well as to the new Laboratory of Human Development...
Besides taking courses in labor law, collective bargaining, accounting, and human relations, the Fellows will attend a number of seminars with labor, management, and government leaders. A series of weekly and evening dinners is also part of the program...
...fact remains that recognition of Spain, a country which denies fundamental freedoms and was an active, if not open, ally of Germany in World War II, would sabotage the 1946 United Nations resolution which requested all members to break off ties with any nation which abridged human rights...