Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood. For it was she who had sliced off her husband's leg, she who had killed daughter, aunt and seamstress-all to collect insurance. Excoriated as a "devil in petticoats," a "human cobra," Frau Marek was sentenced to death...
...knowledge of Psychology is of especial value for careers in medicine, teaching, psychiatry, social work, and advertising. It is not as valuable as it might be, however, for concentrators felt that too much time was given to psycho-physics, and not enough to practical human psychology. Course 17 in Child Psychology, a new course in a much needed subject, was disappointing in that too much attention was given to pure statistics...
...social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made accessible to the underprivileged, social standards in Massachusetts will remain at their present disgraceful level...
...with their fathers; man's sexual instinct, as deeply rooted as his hunger for food, is at war with the norms and conditions of social life. And contrary to the usual impression, most of Freud's writing deals with the simplicities and not with the abnormalities of human experiences: with people sleeping, dreaming, blundering and forgetting, not with sexual aberrations and sexual crimes...
...appearing small potatoes. Well-written, soberly sentimental, Free Land is the story of a newly-married homesteader in the Dakota territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events; in comparison with them, the struggles of the people, for all their physical vigor, seem pretty placid. The story suggests a landscape by Grant Wood-sweeping vistas of prairie country in which...