Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most genuinely important aspect of the entire plan lies in the field of human relationships, or the simple sending of Harvard students to meet with the peoples of the world. With this in mind, Mr. Rogers' excellent plan takes on a new scope and significance, and should be given serious consideration in its request for extension. Henry S. Williams...
...project will be built up from Yale's human relations files, started in 1937 as a small-scale answer to the problem of collecting data in the social sciences...
...have not been fully explained, and reports still come in at the rate of about twelve a month; but the National Military Establishment is not worried. Group suggestibility and "vertigo" and the difficulty of judging the speed and distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing off on mysterious cross-country trips...
Like its Broadway original, and like most movies with a weighty message, Home pays a heavy price for treating human beings as if they were clearly defined symbols in a propaganda tract. Another weakness to be chalked up to Playwright Laurents: the arguments against discrimination get badly mixed up with the abracadabra of psychiatry...
When first published, the book was mistaken by some for an ironic smirk at the church. A weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois. To Author Martin du Gard, there are no sure answers to anything, either in religion or irreligion. But most of the sting is taken out of his irony by the simple compassion for human beings that salves every page in the book...