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Word: humanity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Soviet press launched a campaign against tipping in restaurants. "Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Old Tribute | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...sentimental exchanges between Dr. Cornish and the young woman he loves. As his own director, Playwright Schary has only stressed what seems wooden or hammy. In neither capacity is he aware that there is an art to preaching, or that those who plead a cause should themselves seem human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Nov. 16, 1959 | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...popular conception that he was a very funny man. After his famous "Jumping Frog" story, he was "made." But humor is not the only trade mark of Twain. A genuine and deep bitterness, sometimes strung out in novel-sized (often two volume novel-sized) indictments of the human race, is equally characteristic...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...FRANKLIN LECTURES, 1959. Human Dignity and the Clash of Ideologies in A Shrinking World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WGBH Programs For The Week | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

Erik H. Erikson, noted child psychologist, has been recommended to fill a position in the Department of Social Relations, the CRIMSON has learned. Although his appointment must still be approved by the Corporation, Erikson will presumably become a professor of Human Development...

Author: By Claude E. Welch, | Title: Erikson May Receive New Appointment | 11/10/1959 | See Source »

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