Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since that incident there has been no cool between Police Commissioner Kennedy and the New York City Youth Board. Says one board official bitterly: "All Kennedy wants is to swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...near the inlet. They looked up to see a man come racing over the headland. He stumbled once or twice, then reached them, gasping out words in Russian and German, pointing in terror behind him, repeatedly making the gesture of slitting his throat. Recognizing a fugitive, Fraser did the human thing: he hid the man, one Erich Teayn, 32, in his cottage...
...LONGER HUMAN (177 pp.)-Osamu Dazai-New Directions...
...sole emotion the hero of No Longer Human feels is a horror of other humans. As a boy, Yozo has merely to watch the rest of the family of ten devour its food to lose his own appetite. When his father asks Yozo what present he wants from Tokyo, his first impulse is to answer: "Nothing." ("The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference.") To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan...
...these squalid though sometimes cruelly moving episodes, Yozo emerges with a stoic creed-"Everything passes." Almost alone among recent Japanese literary imports, No Longer Human is strikingly free of cherry-blossom reveries and puzzling Oriental character motivations. If the author's identity were unknown, this novel might easily be taken for the work of a U.S. Southern decadent who had lingered long at the café tables of the French existentialists...