Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean Boewet thought human blood too costly a fertilizer. He went on: "I stand here and think about all the blood from so many corners of Europe which was spilled over this plain. Every month someone digs up a new skeleton. They can usually tell by the buttons of his uniform whether he was French, British, Prussian, Belgian or Dutch...
...thought of competing with the Swiss. Or the owners and workers of Italy's Fiat auto plants point trembling fingers at the Renault and Citroën production in France. Or the French masons and building unions become indignant at the prospect of cheaper Italian labor. These are human and understandable fears, which, spelled in human terms, mean loss of jobs and painful reorientation or conversion...
Last week, he pasted a neat miniature of Molotov in his album: "Cannonball head . . . comprehending eyes . . . slab face ... a man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure...
...central characters of this meandering story about an adolescent love affair, mercurial Denis and marshmallow-sweet Lise, are difficult to take seriously as human beings. But Lemelin writes with vigor and energy, he is rooted in the life of the people about whom he writes and knows exactly what he is talking about; and, most important of all, he is steadfastly honest. Roger Lemelin may yet write novels that will make not only French Canada but the entire western world acknowledge him as an important writer...
...bullets, though often enough when they land they seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...