Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since his nation's surrender in 1945, Emperor Hirohito has been shifting from a divine to a human monarch. In his new role, the ex-god makes frequent tours among his people. Last week, as Hirohito visited the southern island of Kyushu, the changed relationship between the ruler and the ruled became increasingly and significantly apparent. Cabled TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney...
British Novelist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) told the American Academy of Arts and Letters that in pessimistic moments he thought that "man's best chance for harmony lies in apathy, uninventiveness and inertia . . . Universal exhaustion would certainly be a new experience. The human race has never undergone it, and it is still too perky to admit that it ... might result in a sprouting of new growth through decay...
Though mosquitoologists have turned up many such fascinating tidbits, they have not yet found what attracts mosquitoes to their human victims. It is not sight, for mosquitoes are almost blind. It is not odor; no odor, human or otherwise, seems to attract mosquitoes. Temperature may have something to do with it. A glass cylinder filled with water at blood heat is often attacked by swarms of hungry mosquitoes. A moist towel heated electrically gets the same attention. Some investigators think mosquitoes are attracted by carbon dioxide in the human breath. But neither theory explains how mosquitoes find their victims...
...Little woman, give me your little paw," said the dying Goethe to his daughter-in-law. Had these been his last words, the great Johann Wolfgang might today seem more human and approachable than generations of followers have made him out to be. Unfortunately he said later: "Open the blind of the other window, so that more light may come in!" This statement (abbreviated to the more impressive command: "More light!") has become Goethe's epitaph, supposedly expressing his yearning that greater illumination might come to the hearts of men. Somewhere along the road the "little paw" has been...
...with him. Almost illiterate ("She has not read a line of all my works," said Goethe), Christiane not only loved Goethe but delighted him by her absolute refusal to be anything but' what nature had intended her to be. She bore him several children. It was the hidden, human Goethe, warm behind the icy mask, who told his friend Johann Herder: "If you continue to be fond of me and a few friends stick to me and my girl remains faithful and my baby lives and my big stove works well-why, I have nothing left to wish...