Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhausted their benefits under state and federal laws," said the President. "I said at the time that prompt action was necessary to give these workers and their families 'a greater measure of security.' This is not a matter of statistics or economic theory. It concerns people-human beings-who need, and should have, the assistance of their government...
...aside from Scott, the finest acting was by Mark Mirsky and Arthur Lewis, as Gloucester and Kent. Gloucester is essentially a less exalted and more human Lear; Mirsky sustained this perfectly, and managed to dodder convincingly in the bargain. Lewis made a secondary role important with a stalwart, knowledgeable and nicely articulated performance...
Hardly anyone on stage is fully human or alive, which may be the fault of Anthony Quayle's direction. As an actor with a grandiose voice, he himself can get away with a heavy, solid, nearly motionless style of acting, because his voice does most of the work. But no one else on stage, not even Katherine Cornell, who often visibly tries to compete with Quayle on a purely vocal, statuesque level, can get away with...
...that an introduction to the concepts and techniques of the calculus, as well as a grounding in the methods and goals of the physical sciences be required of any man who pretends to call himself generally educated. However, if General Education is really concerned with man as a "responsible human being and citizen," some such change must be made eventually, and present steps in that direction may be suggested...
...without giving himself the satirical elbow room to comment on them. Author Wilson has chided gloomy fellow novelists who write "as if we were back in the Depression years," and his point is well taken. He himself is open to the opposite charge of a boom mentality about the human condition. The pithiest critique of this point of view came from F. Scott Fitzgerald during another boom: "The victor belongs to the spoils...