Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although its editors call the U. S. Rising Tide a magazine, its nature is more that of an illustrated religious tract. In 48 fast moving pages of striking photos and photomontages, it shows the reader a world where "human wisdom has failed . . . but God has a plan." Page after page of pictures, exhibiting exuberant Oxford Group grins, illustrate how "one man" (Dr. Buchman) brought God's plan to Oxford in 1921, how his disciples spread it in Canada, the Scandinavian nations, Switzerland, The Netherlands...
...influence of Christianity in the future, he concluded, "The effect will be there, quite out of sight, in the deepest region of human consciousness...
...anatomist, Edmond J. Farris, has developed such a remarkable chemical technique for preserving specimens that he is confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...
...good nature and a general sanity too unmitigated to be of much current use to a loyal inhabitant of contemporary Europe. But Poet Auden is not so loyal to Europe as to deny the notion-suggested by the sight of Icelanders clumsily gallivanting at a country fair-that plain human nature is the essential thing to be loyal...
...Professor Bering was very reluctant to give any publicity to the details of the new experiments which are now being carried on in the Harvard Psychological Department. "Ninety percent of our experiments necessitate the use of human material," he explained, "and the student doesn't and shouldn't know what the experiment is about...