Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English 93° heat as more than 5,000 athletes from 58 nations (among the largest: the 341-man U.S. squad) marched around the field. Exactly on schedule, at 4:07 p.m., a runner entered Wembley Stadium, bearing the "permanent flame" from Greece. He was anchor man on a human chain which had relayed the torch from a British destroyer landing at Dover. The flame went out twice...
...when war industries were begging for skilled workers, the Chicago school board looked around for a man who could perk up down-in-the-mouth Dunbar. The principal at Wendell Phillips High School, where Campbell was dean of boys, gave him a resounding recommendation: "An artist in human relations...
...father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain the violence-and insanity-after death; its weakness comes of pushing this suggestion too far, implying that no human kindness or decency could survive modern warfare, and thus turning what might have been a tragic moral struggle into a necrophiliac nightmare...
...poet for 20 years, has formed his famous style, and made him a faintly theatrical, gloom-wrapped figure in U.S. poetry. He describes this insight as "a certain philosophical attitude, which might be called Inhumanism, a shifting of emphasis and significance from man to not-man; the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...