Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knows that all strips must one day fall flat, I worry that Watterson will start creating a series of new personas for Calvin without improving either the presentation of those characters or the psychological depth of Calvin. Yukon Ho! focuses on the presentation more than showing a more human side to Calvin, but the approach is still fresh...
...Female," "person" and "human being" also fail as substitutes. While they each have their time and place, their repeated use belies the precision that supposedly characterizes articulate speech. It is virtually impossible to say, for example, "This human being was wearing a paisley dress and shouting socialist slogans" without sounding a wee bit awkward...
...issue is an important step toward learning how well a broken human bone might mend during long flights aboard a space station or on a trip to Mars...
...interview from his jail cell in Salem, Mass., fugitive banker George Koskotas finally tells his tale of the worst political and financial scandal to hit Greece in 40 years. -- In Venezuela economic austerity measures provoke an orgy of rioting and murder. -- President Bush stumbles on the nettlesome issue of human rights during his trip to China...
...forbearing wife Essie, or for Peggy Ashcroft or Uta Hagen, or for any of the other strong-willed women with whom he had affairs. Robeson was smitten with the Soviet Union. During a 1934 visit, the singer proclaimed that in the U.S.S.R. he felt "like a human being for the first time since I grew...