Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Recognized, 48 to 6, the U.S.-Sponsored Korean Republic (South Korea). tj Passed, 48 to o, a Declaration of Human Rights. There were eight abstentions, including the Soviet bloc (six votes), South Africa and Saudi Arabia...
...Federal Council, in its "Statement on Human Rights," went on record as opposing Jim Crow in any form-and called for equal, nonsegregated participation of all races in all phases of the "social and public life of the community," including housing, education, recreation, transportation and businesses serving the public "such as stores, theaters, hotels and restaurants...
...make a story suddenly flash with "theater" or a speech with intensity. But Red Gloves takes a good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre is master-the phony thrill and the incisive speech-lies a whole human world he barely grazes; his situations ring hollow, his people seem paperbacked. Only Hoederer, in Actor Boyer's fine portrayal, has shape or color; indeed, the best of Red Gloves is what Boyer brings...
...feet are more distinctively human than his apelike hands. But he doesn't pay much attention to his feet, and he doesn't think very highly of foot doctors. Podiatry (a newer and more popular word than chiropody) is not yet recognized as a part of organized medicine...
...despite this editorial caution, the new Bartlett is full of inconsistencies and badly lacking in proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...