Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiction readers, the New York Times reported, now prefer Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind...
...their unending search for a solution to crossing accidents, roadbuilders have evolved complicated, twisted approaches to mainline highways. But the human element is still the same. One night last week Driver Peter Motola blundered on to the wrong approach to the Union Turnpike in Queens, N.Y., drove into the wrong oneway lane on the turnpike. Result: a head-on crash (see cut). The toll: six dead; five injured...
...white-haired Curator Mark R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, was pocking the hill with carefully dug excavations. Working with trowels and brushes in 100° heat, they turned up spear points, grinding stones and the charcoal of ancient fires. Their prize find: a piece of human thigh bone. Curator Harrington believes that the site was inhabited seasonally by 300 to 400 people about 10,000 years...
...meat," posters of protest, mute and futile gestures though they are, appear on the city's walls. They are the work of Marc Laverne, leader of an anti-Stalinist leftist group, a man so imbued with revolutionary fatalism that he seems like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form of a triple question . . . Vichy? Gestapo? OGPU? ... He [knows] how to recognize the agents...
Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...